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🗓️ 24 February 2021
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0:00.0 | Ever since humans looked up at the stars, they noticed that a few of them were different from others. |
0:04.7 | They moved. |
0:05.9 | These moving points of light were planets, and one of those points of light was of course the |
0:09.7 | planet Mars. |
0:11.3 | This first observation of Mars by early humans slowly and inexorably led to |
0:15.1 | landing robots on the surface of the planet. Learn more about our exploration of |
0:19.2 | Mars on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Curiosity Stream. |
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0:44.0 | They have countdown to impact, which is about the Perseverance Rover which just landed. |
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1:20.2 | As I mentioned in the introduction, the exploration of Mars can be considered to have begun in prehistory. |
1:25.2 | As far as we know, every civilization was aware of Mars and was able to track its position in the sky. |
1:31.2 | The first written mention of Mars was by the Egyptians and |
1:34.8 | even then they were aware of a retrograde motion which is sometimes when the |
1:39.4 | planet appears to move backwards in the sky which is caused by the Earth passing the slower planet in its orbit. |
1:45.9 | The Samarians, Greeks, and Romans all associated Mars with their gods of war. |
1:50.5 | The ancient Chinese associated it with the element of fire. Beyond tracking the point of light in the sky, there wasn't much more that ancient people could really do. |
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