The One_A Cruise Through the Solar System by Eric Klein

Author:Eric Klein [Klein, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Solar System, Hard Science Fiction, science fiction, Near Future, sci fi
ISBN: 9780994449337
Publisher: Purple Toga Publications
Published: 2018-02-28T13:00:00+00:00

Leaving the ship via the pressure tube, we enter Mars immigration and customs area. The same armed TSA agents are there. They seem a bit tenser, and separate us to discourage talking while in line. The scans take longer than the day before as though they are trying harder to find something. Where it was under five minutes to scan me the day before, today it took almost fifteen minutes.

Once we are cleared, we take a slideway to The Mars That Never Was exhibit. We find a holographic globe of Mars as it is today. We take our seats as the narration begins. “The Mars that we know and live on today is very different from what was envisioned before space travel gave us the ability to see images up close, and to realize that the Earth-like habitable world did not, in fact, exist. In the following presentations, we will show the history of human perception of Mars and how it has changed over time. As a new addition to the exhibit, we have included a brief history of the discovery of the real Mars and the exploration that was part of bringing us to live on Mars.

“First let’s look at Mars in ancient history. Originally, the name as we now know it was from the Greeks, who took the red color and named it for their god of war, Ares. Later, after the Romans came to prominence, they changed the name to that of their own god of war, Martius, or in English, ‘Mars.’ Currently, the common names for all the planets come from the names of Roman gods. The Egyptian astronomers knew about and were observing Mars as early as fifteen thirty-four BCE. They were able to define when it would be in the sky. It was known to the Babylonians and was included in the calculations of horoscopes. By the fourth century BCE, Aristotle had observed that Mars went behind the Moon and thus was farther away. Around the same time, Mars first appeared in Chinese literature.”

“Through the middle ages, various individuals took to looking at Mars, including Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei. By the late nineteenth century there were established centers for astronomy that led to a more detailed investigation.” The hologram changes to an image of a bald man with a mustache that came to points. “One of the best known of these researchers was Percival Lowell. He had been inspired to study Mars by the drawings of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who was director of the Milan Observatory. Lowell was working at an observatory in what was then the Flagstaff, Arizona Territory, dedicated to the observation of Mars. There, he recorded maps of what he thought of as canals, starting in eighteen ninety-four. Lowell published his findings in three books: Mars, published in eighteen ninety-five, Mars and Its Canals, published in nineteen oh six, and Mars As the Abode of Life, published in nineteen oh eight. It was his theory that

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