We know what Mars looks like from Earth. When the sky is clear of light, clouds and pollution, it can be seen with the naked eye. It’s the red one, a lonely ruby among scattered diamonds, and often appears close to Jupiter even though their orbits are 550 million kilometres apart.
Zoom in, and Mars becomes more beautiful and more terrifying. It is not, as writers have imagined in the past, criss-crossed with canals and the deep canyons are unlikely to hide fleets of flying saucers primed to swarm down on humanity at a moment’s notice. Instead, it’s a desolate place of rocks, craters and giant mountains, one of which is a 27-kilometre high volcano. Most of the mountains are in the southern hemisphere, and a massive impact millions of years ago left much of the north a dusty basin. It’s a downhill walk to the north pole, should anyone get the chance.
We know what Mars looks like from Earth. When the sky is clear of light, clouds and pollution, it can be seen with the naked eye. It’s the red one, a lonely ruby among scattered diamonds, and often appears close to Jupiter even though their orbits are 550 million kilometres apart. Zoom in, and Mars becomes more beautiful and more terrifying. It is not, as writers have imagined in the past, criss-crossed with canals and the deep canyons are unlikely to hide fleets of flying saucers primed to swarm down on humanity at a moment’s notice. Instead, it’s a desolate place of rocks, craters and giant mountains, one of which is a 27-kilometre high volcano. Most of the mountains are in the southern hemisphere, and a massive impact millions of years ago left much of the north a dusty basin. It’s a downhill walk to the north pole, should anyone get the chance.
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