PLANET MARS

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PLANET MARS

• Does life exist on Mars?

Mars Video
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ALIENS!

• Christiaan Huygens, 1659 rate of rotation
  similar to Earths

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ALIENS!

• Canals on Mars sparked belief of alien life
• Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, 1877
• 40 lines crossing Mars
• Percival Lowell, late 1800s
• 160 canals

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Alien Canals

• People associated Mars canals with our manmade
  canals
• Changes in brightness (vegetation) on surface
  areas of Mars caused the belief that the canals
  were built to water crops

Rock on Mars that appears to have formed under
watery conditions/ NASA
Polar ice cap believed to have Supplied the
water for the Irrigation system on Mars
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ALIEN INVASION!

• Since Mars appears so desert-like, why wouldnt
  its alien residents want to invade Earth?!

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ALIEN INVASION!

• H.G. Wells, 1898 War of the Worlds

• Orson Welles, 1938 Mercury Theatre, War of the
  Worlds

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ALIEN INVASION!

• An estimated 1 million people panicked after
  hearing parts of Orson Welles broadcast
• This estimation was believed to be exaggerated by
  the media

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ALIEN INVASION Popular Culture

• Novels
• Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter of Mars
• Arthur C. Clarke, Sands of Mars
• Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land,
  Podykayne of Mars, and Red Planet
• C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
• C. L. Moore, Shambleu
• Alexei Tolstoy, Aelita
• Kim Stanley Robinson

• Movies
• Alien
• E.T. The Extra-terrestrial
• Signs
• Independence Day
• War of the Worlds
• The X Files
• Mars Attacks
• Alien Nation
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• The Thing
• Duel