Interactive Mars Week Activity
To celebrate Mars Week, let’s take a look at human interaction with Mars through time!
Early human interaction with Mars
The Ancient Egyptians were the first to notice that the stars seem “fixed” and that the sun moves relative to the stars.
They also noticed 5 bright objects in the sky (Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn) that seemed to move in a similar manner.
They called Mars ‘Har-Decher’, or ‘the red one’.
Credits: AC Origins Ubisoft, Sarah Schachner
The Middle Ages
Credits: Wellcome Collection
Which of the following made the first breakthrough sketches of Mars?
20th Century
Credits: NASA
21st Century
Credits: NASA
Which two devices were deployed in the Mars 2020 mission?
Emerging space exploring nations
Credits: ISRO, China News Service
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