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On this sol in 161 (1912 January 14):
MARTIAN CANAL HAS A TWIN.
Doubling of Waterway Held by Some to Prove It Artificial.
www.nytimes.com/1912/01/14/a...

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On this sol in 152 (1895 February 09):
Max Valier was born; Austrian rocketry pioneer; author of A Daring Trip to Mars (1931).

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On this sol in 152 (1895 February 09):
Fyodor Aleksandrovich Otsep (Фёдор Александрович Оцеп) was born; Russian/Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor; contributing writer to the screenplay for Aelita: Queen of Mars (Аэлита – королева Марса) (1924).

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To-sol is 222 Sagittarius 08
LS 003.5°
On this sol in 030 (1665 August 21):
Giacomo Filippo Maraldi was born; Italian-French astronomer, observer of Mars.
124.0-kilometer diameter crater located at ˗62.2°, 328.0°

Plum favored Martian Soda was too good to pass up today and had to add this one to my collection! #UFO #Alien #Martian #Soda #closeencounter

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On this sol in 209 (2002 April 24):
Mars Global Surveyor frame E1501285 imaged the Candor Tetrahedron.

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On this sol in 170 (1928 December 16):
Philip Kindred Dick was born; American science fiction writer; author of "Martians Come in Clouds" (1953), "Survey Team" (1954), Martian Time-Slip (1964), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), and "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966).

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On this sol in 151 (1893 March 22):
In Journey to Mars (1894) by Gustavus W. Pope, merchant seaman Tom Hallyard, first mate of the White Gull, delivered to the Albatross’s physician in New York the journal of Lieutenant Frederick Hamilton documenting his journey to Mars.

#FairyTaleTuesday #WorldSpaceWeek 👽
In 1897, a paper reported an airship crash in Aurora, Texas.
Its pilot: supposedly was a #Martian

Legend says “Ned” lies in the cemetery. 🪦

Hear humming beneath his grave… would you listen?
beyondhaunted.com/texas/aurora...
Newsclip in 1896, the San Fran Call

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To-sol is 222 Sagittarius 07
LS 003.0°
Earth departure opportunity to Mars via an EEM trajectory.
On this sol in 152 (1895 February 08):
Andrew E. Douglass observed the canals Astapus, Boreosyrtis, Orosines, Dosaron, Casuentus, Erymanthus, Tedanius, Drahonus, Cephissus, Rha, Melas...

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On this sol in 189 (1964 September 10):
The Kiwi B4E nuclear thermal rocket engine was restarted, and run at 882 MW for two and a half minutes, demonstrating the ability of a nuclear rocket engine to be shut down and restarted.

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On this sol in 188 (1962 October 24):
An unacknowledged Mars flyby mission was launched on the Molniya 8K78 s/n T103-15 carrier rocket from Baikonur Site 1/5, but failed to leave Earth orbit.

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On this sol in 186 (1959 January 19):
Quatermass and the Pit, Episode 5, “The Wild Hunt” air date. A brain scanner reveals alien pictures in Barbara Judd’s mind of “the Wild Hunt”—the frenetic purging of the Martian hives. In the pit, a technician is killed as the capsule starts to glow.

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On this sol in 160 (1910 February 23):
In Auf zwei Planeten by Kurd Lasswitz (1897), Martian embassies had secretly arrived in Washington, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome and Petersburg at the same time to get through verbal intercourse with the leading statesmen to clarify the situation.

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On this sol in 159 (1908 April 06):
Vano Il’ich Muradeli was born; Soviet Georgian composer; composed the song “And on Mars There Will Be Apple Blossoms” (1963). It became a favorite within the cosmonaut corps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5DR...

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To-sol is 222 Sagittarius 05
LS 002.0°
Tianwen-1 is scheduled to begin its fourth marsrev of orbital operations.

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On this sol in 210 (2004 March 08):
MER-A Sol 64: A panorama from Mars Exploration Rover Spirit near the rim of Bonneville crater.

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On this sol in 209 (2002 April 21):
As Nozomi was approaching Earth for its second of three gravity assist maneuvers, powerful solar flares damaged its power systems, but maneuvers to put the craft on the correct trajectory for its Earth flyby were successful.

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On this sol in 185 (1957 March 01):
"The Martian Cats" by Robert Moore Williams appeared in Fantastic Universe. Earth laws strictly forbade the importation of unlicensed fauna to Earth. But the law did not provide for the strange situation that developed on a freighter returning to Earth.

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On this sol in 185 (1957 March 01):
"The Devil Spins a Sun-Dream" by John Jakes also appeared in Space Science Fiction Magazine (date approximate). A human prospector on Mars searches for a fabled city.