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The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has long been an omen in the night sky. And in its own way, the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ...

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This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Carl Sagan spent his childhood immersed in Mars. The future scientist, an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ...

More ambitiously, Elon Musk hopes to colonize Mars. Despite this promising progress, many remain skeptical. When asked to guess what the future holds for space tourism, only half the U.S ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... rover Curiosity now stirring us all as it explores Mars, the United States, along with other countries and several ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... in pockets of liquid water deep beneath the surface of Mars or in a sea under the frozen crust of Jupiter's moon ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... More is known about the terrain of Mars than about what lies hidden beneath the Earth’s surface.