Is it true?

yep i believe its true...should be an awesome sight.....i bet its cloudy on that night...lol

A bogus e-mail letter circulated on the Internet during the summers of 2005 and 2006 tried to mislead people into thinking that Mars would look as big as the full Moon to the naked eye in late August. The bogus letter has reappeared this year.

The story goes back to August 2003 when Mars made a historical close approach to Earth and thus attained its maximum visual brightness. There was a saying that when Mars reached the point closest to Earth on 27 August 2003, it would appear to the naked eye as big as the moon when viewed through a 75 times magnification telescope. Apparently that qualifier was dropped from the bogus letter resulting in an amazing statement.

Even when Mars is at its closest and brightest, it still looks like a tiny orange star, nowhere near as big and bright as the full Moon.

On 27 August 2007, Mars will be far away from Earth, at a distance three times that of the 2003 approach and one-eighteenth as bright. It will definitely not be as magnificent as the bogus letter claims.

No, chain letter. Mars will never appear to be bigger than the moon with the naked eye from earth unless it is knocked off course one day.

Wow omg thanks for sharing this with me ill make sure to stay up on my bedtime and watch a red planet appear in the nightsky so then i can go back to get some ****** rest

No. That one got me good too. And look how fooled Roy was. I got almost as much info as him. Hm. Oh, well. But I do believe in the Tooth Fairy. No one can take that away from me.

That's interesting.ill wait for that.i heard the same and i also read that there's eclipse on 28th August.

I don't know I haven't heard that yet! But I hope so that sounds cool!

i haven't heard that yet but i hope its true... sounds like it will be something worth seeing

No...urban legend...look it up

That's what I heard.