Mars
Mars has fascinated humans throughout history. It appears as a blood-red star in the sky, which led the Romans to name it after their war god. Its motions across the sky helped German astronomer ...
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Mars
Mars moves through our skies in its stately dance, distant and enigmatic, a world awaiting exploration.
—Astronomer Carl Sagan, 1967
Enigmatic means mysterious. Mars has been a mystery t...
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Mars
Before the invention of the telescope, Mars was just another of the "wanderers" that traveled through the sky. Its only distinguishing characteristic was its reddish color, which produced associa...
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