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PLANET MARS Does life exist on Mars? Mars Video. ALIENS! Christiaan Huygens, 1659: rate of rotation similar to Earth’s.

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1 PLANET MARS Does life exist on Mars? Mars Video

2 ALIENS! Christiaan Huygens, 1659: rate of rotation similar to Earth’s

3 ALIENS! Canals on Mars sparked belief of alien life Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, 1877 –40 lines crossing Mars Percival Lowell, late 1800s –160 canals

4 Alien Canals People associated Mars’ canals with our manmade canals Changes in brightness (vegetation) on surface areas of Mars caused the belief that the canals were built to water crops Rock on Mars that appears to have formed under watery conditions/ NASA Polar ice cap believed to have Supplied the water for the Irrigation system on Mars

5 ALIEN INVASION! Since Mars appears so desert-like, why wouldn’t its alien residents want to invade Earth?!

6 ALIEN INVASION! H.G. Wells, 1898: War of the Worlds Orson Welles, 1938: Mercury Theatre, War of the Worlds

7 ALIEN INVASION! An estimated 1 million people panicked after hearing parts of Orson Welles’ broadcast –This estimation was believed to be exaggerated by the media

8 ALIEN INVASION: Popular Culture Novels –Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles –Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter of Mars –Arthur C. Clarke, Sands of Mars –Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, Podykayne of Mars, and Red Planet –C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet –C. L. Moore, Shambleu –Alexei Tolstoy, Aelita –Kim Stanley Robinson Movies –Alien –E.T. The Extra-terrestrial –Signs –Independence Day –War of the Worlds –The X Files –Mars Attacks –Alien Nation –Invasion of the Body Snatchers –The Thing –Duel


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