This is not a question that can have an exact answer, because it’s difficult to determine exactly when someone saw it for the first time. It is believed that the ancient Egyptians saw it first, two millennia BCE. Nevertheless, others believe that Galileo Galilei was the first to observe it through a telescope in 1610.
One thing is for sure, though, Mars is bright enough and can be easily spotted in the night sky without binoculars or telescope.
Mars is a terrestrial planet, just like Mercury, Venus, and Earth. Terrestrial planets are made up of rock and metals. Moreover, Mars is a rocky planet, it has mountains, volcanoes, craters, and deep canyons all over its surface.
The tallest mountain Mars has is Olympus Mons, which is also the tallest in the solar system, stretching 21,229m above the planet’s surface.
Mars was the Roman god of War, and many people still believe that this name is associated with bloodshed and war because of its red color.
Interestingly (or better say, weirdly) the sky on Mars is quite the opposite of what we see every day here on Earth. Mars’s sky is actually blue at sunset and sunrise, while during the day, it’s reddish-pink. This weird and unusual phenomenon is due to the vast quantity of dust which contains Magnetite, an iron ore, that is suspended in the atmosphere.
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