On April 8, Mars, Earth and the sun aligned in a rare “opposition of the planets”. Such a phenomenon occurs once every 776 days. What makes the alignment remarkable is that on April 15, 2014, a week after the happening, will mark the beginning of four successive dark red “blood moons” which will be visible to us on earth.
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Lunar eclipses in general are sometimes called ‘blood moons’ because the light bouncing off the moon is refracted through the Earth’s atmosphere giving it a coppery hue (it’s the same mechanism that make sunsets and sunrises look red). To learn in more detail about Blood Moons, go to a comprehensive link at “What is a Blood Moon?”
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According to NASA this highly unusual “tetrad” four successive total ‘blood-red’ lunar eclipses each followed by six full moons – will start on Tuesday April 15 and finish on September 28th, 2015.
This incredible alignment has only happened a handful of times in the last 2,000 years, some religious lore attests that each of the last three occasions of such a unique “tetrad,” has been significant in that it coincided with a globally momentous religious event.
