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Martian Gleams

A Mars A Day Makes Odd Lights Shine Away

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Adam Roberts
Feb 03, 2026
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The photograph is a high-resolution 3D close-up view of the planet Mars showing its rugged surface, reddish terrain, and detailed geological features

At the end of the nineteenth-century E. S. Holden [‘Bright Projections at the Terminator of Mars’, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (December 1894), 284–5] recorded some strange happenings on, or out of, the Red Planet:

Bright Projections at the Terminator of Mars

The writer of an unsigned article in Nature for August 2, 1894 (page …

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