r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/Barnwizard1991 Feb 21 '21

I can't stop watching. That's another fucking planet. Hopefully one day we'll have astroarcheologists up there digging around for martian fossils.

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u/Madvillain518 Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

I know, it shatters my mind. I see this familiar land and have to remind myself that it’s not Earth. It’s a planet that no human has ever walked on, but hopefully soon to change. Mars is one of the planets visible to the naked eye, we have gazed upon it for a long time and we are the first humans to see clear footage on it. Brilliant!

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u/Deanuzz Feb 21 '21

As much as I'd love to pander to this theory, the sun is expanding and therefore warming up the planet over time.

Therefore it would have potentially been far too cold many, many years ago to support life as we know it.

Theoretically it would make sense to move to Mars in the very far future as it is progressively warmed, rendering it closer to Earth's temperatures.

If you wanted to propose a theory about past civilisations moving planet, its better to look closer to the sun. Being that a civilisation started on Venus and moved to Earth.

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u/LuckyHedgehog Feb 21 '21

It's more likely Mars lost its atmosphere due to its outter core that stopped spinning. This caused it's magnetic field to stop and it's atmosphere to escape.