Few celestial objects have fascinated humankind throughout history more than the Red Planet. For over a century, we've longed to know more about Mars and the beings that we speculated lived there. When NASA dispelled the notion of creatures scurrying along the rusty plains, it raised a more tantalizing prospect: that
Mental Floss spoke to Kirby Runyon, a research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Tanya Harrison, the director of science strategy for Planet Labs, to learn more about the place your kids might live one day.
1. A Mars year lasts just under two Earth years.