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Who discovered Mars, anyway? A look back at the history of the Red Planet
Space.com ^
| July 27, 2018
| Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Posted on 07/31/2018 2:41:41 PM PDT by ETL
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posted on
07/31/2018 2:41:41 PM PDT
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ETL
To: ETL
I laughed when scrolled down and saw that.
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posted on
07/31/2018 2:46:31 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: ETL
To: ETL
An interesting thing is that Mars was named after the god of war because of its blood red color. The irony is that the same thing which makes our blood red is also what makes mars red: iron. Iron in our hemoglobin, and iron oxide in Martian soil.
To: Moonman62
"Yeah, there I was, 4 o'clock in the morning,
alone on Mount Palomar with my eye pressed against the eyepiece ..."
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posted on
07/31/2018 2:55:18 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: Snickering Hound
"Former vice president Gore is wrong on this one. For it was *I* who discovered the Red Planet."
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07/31/2018 3:00:33 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
To: ETL
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posted on
07/31/2018 3:03:03 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
To: Telepathic Intruder
Yes, Mars is basically made up of basalt, a very common rock here on earth. Most ocean floor is comprised of it.
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posted on
07/31/2018 3:03:19 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: Snickering Hound
They didn’t say “Uranus”, they said Mars...
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posted on
07/31/2018 3:03:31 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: ETL
You’re all wrong . . . it was Brian Williams
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posted on
07/31/2018 3:05:28 PM PDT
by
laweeks
To: Snickering Hound
Oh God if only that was true. “Sorry Hillary, but wow we suddenly found out there’s no more room for you on the ship. Have a nice day.”
To: ETL
I thought it was named after a candy bar...
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posted on
07/31/2018 3:27:58 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: ETL
I know the ancient Greeks called the planets they could see, Wanderers” because unlike stars they changed positions.
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posted on
07/31/2018 3:42:01 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: ETL
Of the naked-eye planets, Mars goes through the largest changes in brightness. Right now, it is as big and bright as it gets. At other times of Its and earth’s year it fades to being barely visible unlike Jupiter, Saturn and Venus or Mercury for that matter. I’ve read some say that’s why it’s named for Mars, the god of war. Besides it’s red hue, like war, it is sometimes close and noticeable and sometimes dim and far away. Anyhow get out and see it over the next week or so.
One problem if you are looking at it through a telescope is that because Mars’s day length is nearly the same as earth’s, you see pretty much the same side of Mars every night.
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posted on
07/31/2018 3:58:51 PM PDT
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hanamizu
To: laweeks
Lol! That’s what I was thinking when I posted the Peter Jennings pic
Always got those two mixed up.
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07/31/2018 4:49:31 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
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07/31/2018 6:20:30 PM PDT
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a fool in paradise
(Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
To: a fool in paradise
"I remember it like it was yesterday. Pitch black skies over Mt Everest, under heavy machine gun fire.
Suddenly I look up and there it was, this very tiny red dot in the sky..."
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08/01/2018 7:07:09 AM PDT
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ETL
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posted on
08/01/2018 7:10:11 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: laweeks
"Sure, I have a moment to tell you how and when I discovered Mars..."
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posted on
08/01/2018 7:14:26 AM PDT
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ETL
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