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This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

Arts. The planet that we all gaze at when we see it turn red, sometimes bright red,

depending upon the Martian dust storms. The fact that we gaze upon it is a way of

connecting us to our ancients, our progenitors, the people who first gaze on

Mars without our instruments and robots in success. Someone who tells this story

wonderfully, I welcome Matthew Shindel is a space history curator at the Smithsonian

National Air and Space Museum and his new book is for the love of Mars, a human

history of the red planet. The ancients did not shy away from interpreting Mars,

so Matt, congratulations in good evening. We go immediately to the Mayans who looked upon Mars

as a zoo morph, a Mars beast. What did they make of that red planet in the sky? Good evening to you.

Thank you, John. Yeah, so the story of the Mayans is very interesting. I was attracted to that story

partly because the Mayans have this incredibly robust understanding of cosmology,

the role that the planets played in their world. I really wanted to learn a little bit more while

I was writing this book about how they saw Mars and what it meant to them. In reading a lot of the

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