If you have an interest in astronomy but either can't afford a really nice telescope or live in a big city with too much light pollution check out
http://www.slooh.com. For $50/year you can watch live "group mission" feeds from a 14" telescope and get commentary about what you are looking at. The $50 also includes 15 minutes of private time that you can use to look at what ever you want. You control the telescope and put in the coordinates. You can buy additional "private time" on the telescopes for $20/15 minutes IIRC. The telescopes are on a remote mountain in the Canary Islands so the time is a little off from the U.S. but perfect to start watching while it is still daylight here. I am sure the "group mission" schedule will be loaded with Mars this weekend. Where else can you rent time on a large remote telescope and watch it in your living room? Check it out, it's pretty neat. I think it is pretty cool that I can sit on my sofa with my laptop connected to the Internet via a wireless network connection and control a big telescope halfway around the world and get a live feed of the telescope image and click a button or two and snap a digital picture of what ever I am looking at. Ain't technology neat!