What Is the Color of Mars?

Until the 19 fifties, i think most astronomers would have said that the chance of their being life on mars was about one point zero. They were almost sure that that was what they were dto find there. And a lot of that had to do with these now elly lusory colors. We're not going to be able to touch five % of what is in this book in this brief conversation. But there are, as i said, so many of these wonderful anecdotes. I had no idea that giovanni cassini and christian hogens were rivals in eighteenth century francea. How fitting that eventually two spacecraft carrying their names would, you know, centuries later