Is this at all related to the upcoming The Planetary Society Launches Global "Mars Day Celebration"
The Red Planet is on a trajectory that will bring it to its closest approach to Earth in over 50,000 years
If Mars is this close, will we be able to see from earth the flags there that Armstrong and the other astronauts planted when they visited Mars? Will we need telescopes to see them?
Sheila Jackson Lee is indeed a visionary.