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with Indeed. This is CBS. I and the world. I'm John Batchelor. Mars, 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 gazed on Mars without our instruments and robots and success.

Someone who tells this story wonderfully, I welcome Matthew Chandel.

He 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 and good evening.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. To the Mayans who looked upon Mars as a zoomorph, a Mars beast.

What did they make of that red planet in the sky?

Good evening to you.

Thank you, John.

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

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

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