Here comes Mars!

It's that bright orange thing up there...

It's at its closest Sunday night. It won't be this close again until 2018.

For ideal results, use a four- inch or greater refractor or Maksutov- Cassegrain with a red or orange filter. A smaller scope, or a scope of some other type, will be fine, though. There's a good chance of visible dust storms. A blue filter is best for these and other atmospheric phenomena.

If you don't have a telescope, there's probably an astronomy club or planetarium nearby. They can get you in touch this weekend with somebody with a scope pointed toward the only planet other than Earth whose surface we can view with our own eyes.