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Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red…

— John Noble Wilford

I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is…

— Ma Yansong

There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there…

— Percival Lowell

Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

— Paul Krassner

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

— Anonymous

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world…

— Buzz Aldrin

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent…

— John Updike

It is quite moving to hold a piece of Mars in your hands and to reflect on its incredible interplanetary journey, and the science…

— Steve Jurvetson

“pointed out Mars, a bright dot of light creeping zenithward”

— H.G. Wells

The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you…

— Robert J. Sawyer

The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa…

— David Grinspoon

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

— Buzz Aldrin