Jimmy Akins's Mysterious World - Episode 79

The planet mars has always been mysterious. The ancient mesopotamians thought of it as the god of war and plague. As science developed, it was discovered to be a planet like earth. In fact, its climate is the most like earth of any planet in our solar system. People have long wondered if there is life on mars. This idea got a big boost in the nineteenth century when astronomers announced they discovered a huge planet spanning network of canals on mars. Is there life on mars? How did it get there, and what is it like?