Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet

No other planet has fired the human imagination like Mars. Towering voleanoes and massive canyons stretch across the vast expanse of Mars, unfolding before us with a grandeur that beekons to be explored. Our fascination, however, is more than just geological: Of all the planets in the solar system apart from Earth. Mars has always been regarded as the most likely to have nurtured life. Even nineteenth-century astronomers were obsessed with the possibility of life on the red planet. Recent discov…