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OCR: APPAREN This animation compares the apparent size of the Martian disc viewed from Earth with the size of Earth' disc Sp viewed from Mars (Since the diameter of Mars about half that of the Earth, Mars appears to be about half the size of the Earth when viewed from the same distance.) Both of these discs are compared to a circle 25 seconds 10 arc in diameter. This circle represents the largest possible apparent size of Mars viewed from Earth (which is achieved only on those very rare occasi ions when the planets are both favorably positioned at the nearest points in their orbits). Even of these times, Mars very difficult telescopic object to observe in detail only about half the apparent size of the much more distant, but much larger planet Jupiter abou trom tant upite