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- Mars will disappear from the Earth's sky for two weeks starting Saturday.
- It's solar conjunction event, during which the sun obscures Mars and the Earth from one another.
- Solar conjunction happens once every two years, according to Space.com.
Mars will disappear from the Earth's sky for two weeks starting Saturday.
That's thanks to a scientific phenomenon known as solar conjunction: a period during which the sun obscures Mars and the Earth from each other.
"Like dancers on either side of a huge bonfire," NASA said, "the two planets are temporarily invisible to each other."