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	<title>Investigating Mars&#187; The Most Interesting Facts About Mars</title>
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		<title>9 Strange Facts About Mars</title>
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1. Mars has the biggest mountain in the solar system.

It&#8217;s called &#8220;Olympus Mons&#8221; and it&#8217;s actually a dormant volcano.  Olympus Mons is 15.5 miles high and 372 miles across.  To give you an idea, Mt. Everest is between 5 and 6 miles tall.  Mars also has the biggest canyon system in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars And The Mayans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the classical world, Mars was the god of war.  In Egypt, it was Horus the Red, or the &#8220;backward traveler.&#8221;  Ancient people all over the world were fascinated by the red planet.  The people who studied Mars most closely were probably the ancient Mayans.
Who Is The Mayan Mars?
The Mayan Mars is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars In Early History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE BABYLONIANS
As far as we know, the planet Mars was first noticed during the time of the Babylonians. They called Mars Nergal, which means the great hero, the king of conflicts. The Babylonians were great astronomers, they watched the stars closely and were able to predict eclipses. They were well aware of different phenomenas but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars In History - 1500&#8217;s to 1700&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how early astronomers were able to keenly observe the stars and the neighboring planets with near-accurate calculations considering that they don&#8217;t have any instruments aside from their eyes. Imagine them observing the sky for years and knowing exactly where the stars are located. It was when something seems out of place that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars In History - 1800&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 1800&#8217;s was considered as the Canal craze period. When scientist Giovanni Schiaparelli discovered &#8220;Canali&#8221; in Mars or &#8220;Channels&#8221;, it was mistakenly translated as canals giving the impression that an intelligent lifeform must have built the canals in Mars.
1809 - Honore Flaugergues discovered dust clouds in Mars and later on, in 1813, noticed that the [...]]]></description>
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