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On this sol in 185 (1957 March 01):
"The Martian Calendar" by Carl Jacobi appeared in Space Science Fiction Magazine (date approximate).
Interior art by Bruce Minney.

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On this sol in 181 (1949 August 22):
In "Exploration of Mars" by Hugo Gernsback (1949), Grego Banshuck, Kars Gugenchob, Gus N. Habergock, Oskar C. Henbugg, Grace G. Hucksnob, and Erno Shuckbagg departed Earth in Mars I on the first expedition to Mars.

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On this sol in 171 (1930 November 01):
“A Message from Mars” by Derek Ironside appeared in Weird Tales (date approximate). Professor Bullivant, who is something of an academic thug, has built a space ship that will take him to Mars in about a month.

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On this sol in 171 (1930 November 01):
“Missionaries from the Sky” by Stanton A. Coblentz appeared in Amazing Stories. Aliens living in a perfect utopia offer to come to Earth’s aid and end hunger, violence, social inequality, and all humankind’s other ills – at a very small cost.

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On this sol in 165 (1919 July 19):
Paul Dunlap was born; American composer of film and television scores; wrote music for over 200 films during his 30-year career; best known for his work with Western movies; composed the score for the motion picture The Angry Red Planet (1959).

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On this sol in 161 (1912 January 10):
James Norman Schmidt was born; American television and science fiction writer; author of “Oscar, Detective of Mars” (1940), “Oscar Saves the Union” (1941), “Death Walks in Washington” (1941), and “Oscar and the Talking Totems” (1942).

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On this sol in 159 (1908 April 05):
Kurt Neumann was born; German-American film director; directed the motion picture Rocketship X-M (1950).

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On this sol in 136 (1864 December 31):
Robert Grant Aitken was born; American astronomer; developed the first Martian civil calendar (1936). His calendar, which began on the northward equinox, divided the marsrev into 16 periods of 41 or 42 sols.

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To-sol is 222 Sagittarius 04
LS 001.4°
On this sol in 129 (1851 November 01):
Louis Pope Gratacap was born; American science fiction writer; author of The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars: Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd (1903).

#Martian geology The documentary power of the Atacama Desert contrasting sharp eroded salt mountain ridges with a massive smooth sand dune An artistic study of extreme textures and arid scale under a clear sky
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New batch of daily sketches, enjoy~

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On this sol in 210 (2004 March 07):
MER-B Sol 63: The panoramic camera on Mars Exploration Rover Spirit recorded a streak which is believed to have been caused by a meteor shower associated with comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff occurred over Mars.
—NASA/JPL

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To-sol is 222 Sagittarius 03
LS 000.9°
On this sol in 159 (1908 April 04):
MARS IN VISIONS AND IN ACTUALITY
Present State of Reliable Knowledge About the Planet Is Summed Up by Prof. Poor.
www.nytimes.com/1908/04/04/a...

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On this sol in 160 (1910 February 20):
In Auf zwei Planeten, "...the government of the Martian states addressed the ultimatum to the British government to admit all demands made by March 1st, otherwise the Martian states would consider themselves to be at war with England."

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On this sol in 136 (1864 December 28):
Frederik Kaiser drew a sketch of Mars. Cimmerium, Mare, Hesperia, Tyrrhenum Mare, Ausonia, Mare Hadriacum, Hellas, Syrtis Major, Noachis, and Mare Erythraeum are identifiable.

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To-sol is 222 Sagittarius 02
LS 000.4°
Approximate time setting for “October 2026: The Million-Year Picnic” in the updated version of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles.

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On this sol in 171 (1932 September 15):
“The Crisis with Mars” by Frank K. Kelly appeared in Wonder Stories Quarterly. War threatened to flame up between two worlds… The Message of peace must be got through… Would the enemies of peace succeed in destroying it?
Interior art by Frank R. Paul.

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On this sol in 160 (1910 February 18):
The motion picture A Trip to Mars was released. After inventing an anti-gravity powder, a man uses it on himself to propel himself to Mars.
—The Science Fiction Movie Database

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On this sol in 001 (1611 January 28):
Johannes Hevelius was born; Polish astronomer, councilor and mayor of Danzig, observer of Mars.

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To-sol is 222 Sagittarius 01
LS 359.9°
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Dust storm season ends.
Northward equinox occurs at 02:26 AMT (08:29 UTC).
New Year’s Sol. Feriae Marti, celebrated on Kalendis Martius on the Roman calendar; dies natalis Martius Mars’s birthday).