Explanation: Even though you may have just read an email claiming Mars will be incredibly bright tonight, the brightest star on the horizon is not Mars.

说明：尽管你可能刚刚收到一封信件提及火星将在今晚难得一见的明亮，但是，事实上在地平线以上，最亮的星星并不是火星。

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Complex life evolved on the Earth's surface, but not on Mars or other planets in the solar system because on those planets, early surface life was killed by UV radiation.

复杂的生命在地球表面进化，而不是在火星或太阳系的其他行星上，因为在那些行星上，早期的地表生命被紫外线杀死了。

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The atmosphere of Mars could not support life.

生命无法在火星的大气环境下生存。

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Not having anything that they're striving for. Not going back to the moon or trying to go to Mars, or anything else."

VOA: special.2010.04.28

And Mars has this sort of human, flabby torso that's not-- it's sympathetic, but it's a different portrayal of war.

马尔斯看起来像一个普通人,略微虚胖,这一点让人同情,但这是对战争的不同描写

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Percival Lowell did not know that his eyes played a part in the markings he saw on Mars.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

If the question is life - and that's one of the most profound questions we can ask, he says - the answer is almost certainly not Mars or an asteroid, but rather the icy moons orbiting distant planets like Saturn and Jupiter.

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Among Lockheed's other projects was Mars Climate Orbiter which, in 1999, did not so much orbit Mars as slam into it.

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Not only is Mars potentially capable of supporting life, but its Earth-like qualities would enable any mission there to generate more important scientific findings.

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