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On this sol in 189 (1966 July 01):
The Hour Before Earthrise by James Blish began serialization in If. Dolph always wanted to go to Mars. Now he had a vehicle that could take him there—his tree house!
Cover art and interior art by Gray Morrow.

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On this sol in 185 (1958 December 22):
Quatermass and the Pit, Episode 1, “The Halfmen” air date. Excavation work at a building site in London unearths a human skull which Dr Roney estimates to be five million years old. Then a strange projectile is dug up.

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On this sol in 152 (1896 November 27):
H.G. Shaw, correspondent for the Stockton Evening Mail in California, reported an encounter two days earlier with an airship and "three strange beings... nearly or quite seven feet high and very slender," which he was certain had come from Mars.

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On this sol in 101 (1800 December 25):
John Phillips was born; British geologist and astronomer, observer of Mars.
190.2-kilometer diameter crater located at 66.7°S 314.9°E

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To-sol is 221 Vrishika 07
LS 348.4°
On this sol in 026 (1659 December 01):
Opposition observed by Christiaan Huygens, who wrote, “The rotation of Mars, like that of the Earth, seems to have a period of 24 hours.”

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On this sol in 201 (1989 January 25):
Fobos 1 passed Mars five months after contact was lost.

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On this sol in 175 (1940 March 01):
Part 2 (the conclusion) of “The Prince of Mars Returns” by Philip Francis Nowlan appeared in Fantastic Adventures (date approximate).
Interior art by H.R. Hammond.

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On this sol in 175 (1940 March 01):
“The Martian Enigma” by Chester S. Geier appeared in Stardust (date approximate).

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On this sol in 151 (1895 January 10):
The soul consciousness of the American spiritualist medium Sara Weiss was by visited members of the spirit band called the Evon-Thia, meaning “for love’s sake” in Martian, bringing news of Martians she had met on her astral travels.

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To-sol is 221 Vrishika 06
LS 347.8°
On this sol in 102 (1802 November 12):
Johann Schröter drew a sketch of Mars. As with other drawings made during this apparition of Mars, reconciling this portrayal with the planet’s albedo features is problematic, which suggests a global dust storm.

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On this sol in 209 (2004 February 09):
MER-B Sol 16: From its new location at the inner edge of the small crater surrounding it, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was able to look out to the plains where its backshell (left) and parachute (right) appear to have landed.

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On this sol in 182 (1953 May 01):
Part 2 of Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey (as Erik van Lhin) appeared in Science Fiction Adventures (date approximate). When they deported Gordon to the corrupt frontier of Mars, he didn’t have sense enough to starve quietly.

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On this sol in 151 (1895 January 08):
Andrew E. Douglass observed the canals Galaesus, Eurypus, Astapus, Xanthus, Amenthes, Lethes, Centrites, Cephissus, Achates, Rha, Galaesus, Athesis, Erymanthus, and Helisson.

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To-sol is 221 Vrishika 05
LS 347.3°
On this sol in 026 (1659 November 28):
Christiaan Huygens drew a sketch of Mars, including a large dark, triangular area later named Syrtis Major, the first Martian surface feature identified from Earth. Huygens used his own design of telescope.

#Space- loving #botanist wondered if #Martian #soil is fertile, so he recreated it and planted #seeds

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On this sol in 198 (1983 June 01):
The song “Have You Hugged Your Martian Today” by Shorty Rogers and Bud Shank was released on their vinyl LP Yesterday, Today and Forever (date approximate).
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To-sol is 221 Vrishika 03
LS 346.2°
On this sol in 135 (1864 December 01):
Angelo Secchi drew a sketch of Mars. Before Schiaparelli named the most prominent albedo feature Syrtis Major in 1877, Secchi called it Scorpione, whose stinger was the curved canalis Nilosyrtis.