I laughed when scrolled down and saw that.
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.
You’re all wrong . . . it was Brian Williams
I thought it was named after a candy bar...
I know the ancient Greeks called the planets they could see, Wanderers” because unlike stars they changed positions.
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.
Columbus.