The Angry Red Planet.

“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”


- HG Wells, from The War of the Worlds


Next to the full Moon and Saturn, Mars shines low over the southern horizon next to Antares in the constellation Scorpius, a mere 46,778,000 miles away,