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1. Everybody loves Mars!
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3. Our idea of what the Martian surface looked like in 1894 – complete with the soon-to-be infamous canals.
4. The first book written about Martians visiting Earth.
5. Percival Lowell’s Mars globe in 1924 – lots of canals!
6. Newspaper cartoon and advertisement during the opposition of 1892.
7. HG Wells wrote War of the Worlds in 1898. The radio broadcast by Orson Wells on Halloween Eve in 1938 caused many to think the Martians were actually invading Earth and some committed suicide.
8. The author of Tarzan wrote some early fanciful novels about Mars… Mars has always been a favorite place for writers to visit.
9. We visited Mars the first time with a flyby with the Mariner 4 spacecraft in 1964/65.
10. We saw the surface features for the first time – craters do exist – no canals!
11. The Viking landers in 1976 (Viking I image top left, Viking II image, top right) and the Pathfinder lander in 1999 gave us a closer view of the Martian surface.
12. Mars with the north polar cap.
13. Hubble views of Mars
14. The entire surface of Mars with ice caps and clouds.
15. Sojourner visits the rock Yogi with the Pathfinder mission. Sojourner is coated with Aerogel to insulate the robot from the cold.
16. A close-up of the Martian surface from Pathfinder.
17. Our changing view of the Martian surface over a 103-year period, 1894 to 1997.
18. We still have a fascination with “Martians”!
19. Martians are usually portrayed as the “bad guys”.
20. This is the type of Martian we are searching for – any type of evidence that at one time, or maybe even today – some type of life existed or still exists on Mars.
21. Topographic map of Mars showing elevation from the Mars Global Surveyor orbiting Mars – dark blue is lowest elevation, white is the highest.
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23. A close-up view of the topography of some Martian craters.
24. A true scale of Earth and Mars showing similar weather patterns.
25. Weather on Mars
26. A closer view of weather on Mars
27. A comparison of weather patterns on Earth (off  NE coast of Africa) and Mars.
28. A high-resolution sharp-rimmed crater.
29. Different types of ejecta blankets from crater impact sites.
30. Early morning frost in the Barnard Crater.
31. Newton Crater in false color
32. Newton Crater – it shows many run-off channels, which could be, cause by moving water.
33. Olympus Mons volcano in 3-D.
34. Different types of volcanoes – we find these same types on Earth and so know what types of processes must have produced them on Mars.
35. The North polar ice cap.
36. The North polar ice cap in 3-D.
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41. Flat map of entire surface of Phobos.
42. Flat map of entire surface of Deimos.
43. Mars Odyssey 2001 spacecraft, which will map thermal emissions on Mars.
44. Second thermal image produced by Odyssey 2001 spacecraft.
45. We have always envisioned living on Mars in many of our science fiction novels.
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47. NASA also envisions living on Mars.
48. We would have to produce the materials we need to survive.
49. Science fiction stories about Mars are almost at an end, as the science fiction becomes a reality.
50. A future mission will take small plants with fluorescing genes added which will glow in different colors to tell us if the plants are lacking in nutrients, oxygen, or water. The enclosed mini greenhouses will be placed directly on the Martian surface.
51. Earth will continue to invade Mars.
52. Future robots will roam the Martian surface.
53. Future orbiters will set the stage for telecommunications for future manned flights to Mars.
54. We will be the Martians!