ROCKET MAN
Nov 04, 2019
2 minutes
BY OLIVER GILES.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAELA GILES
Back in 3000 BC, the ancient Sumerians peered at the blazing red dot in the sky and believed it to be Nergal, their fiery god of the underworld. The Romans thought along similar lines and gave the planet its current appellation, named after their murderous, battle-hungry god of war. Even today Mars is generally presented as forbiddingly hostile when it appears in films
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