The Martian Invasions 

 

HG Wells
War of the Worlds
October 30 1938

Live, newslike radio broadcast of martian invasion. Fooled a lot of people, causing panic:
Audio Clips: The whole audio can be found here. This is totally cool...
Also, Halloween night 11pm on AM1220 - check it out!
We know the real story, don't we John Ya-ya?
Yes, we do John Smallberries...

Another cool Martian



Mariner 4 - Death of the Martians

July 15, 1965: Mariner 4 flyby took pictures of the surface of Mars

Cratered, moon-like, dead world. Didn't look good for life...



Mariner 9 - We're not dead yet!

Okay, well now we see signs of vulcanism, water flow, perhaps not completely dead...

Resolution of Mariner cameras was few hundred meters. Could plant life exist (maybe even small animal life)?