From a previous post, we know that opposition occurs when the planet and the Sun are 180° away from each other in the sky. What this means is that when the Sun is setting, the planet will be rising. In the next couple of days, if you look to the east at sunset, Mars will be rising above the horizon. A great time to view Mars would be at midnight when it is near the apex of its path across the sky. Mars will be in Scorpius (the constellation opposite the Sun's location in Taurus) as seen here.
Because Mars is at opposition, it is the closest to us, but is still about 0.4 AU (60 million kilometers or 37.2 million miles) away from us.
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