Think about that though. I guess it’s no big deal to younger people since Mars has been reachable for their whole life, but the fact that we have robots on Mars taking pictures of a solar eclipse and sending it back to earth is just amazing to me! Mars was a huge mystery when I was a kid. Heck, my childhood was at the tail end of society wondering if there were martians living on Mars.
Yep! They thought Venus might be habitable too. When The War of the Worlds aired, listeners (who missed the disclaimer) thought it was real and panicked.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That would be my guess too. Perhaps aided by a kind of telescope.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Think about that though. I guess it’s no big deal to younger people since Mars has been reachable for their whole life, but the fact that we have robots on Mars taking pictures of a solar eclipse and sending it back to earth is just amazing to me! Mars was a huge mystery when I was a kid. Heck, my childhood was at the tail end of society wondering if there were martians living on Mars.
Jimbo@yiffit.net 1 month ago
As a younger person… was this thought of as a real possibility by some people? I find that hard to believe
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Idk if adults believed it was a real possibility, but us kids having read The Martian Chronicles certainly did.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yep! They thought Venus might be habitable too. When The War of the Worlds aired, listeners (who missed the disclaimer) thought it was real and panicked.