Now this is the time for mars

[sunofsky]

as I am observing from my terrace of my home, the mars looking a brightest star in the eastern sky, it is just look at 9.00 pm just like a venus in red colour.

It's too much nice to observe from the binaculars.

I think that if any thought come put forward then mars will be the best for colonisation. secondly what I think, that many years ago, there was a life on mars, but may be ruin due to the natural process of destruction of life, and creation of life. we can not say perfectly that which were the life forms there, but what today we are hearing about mars, then it looks that there is a great possibility to search the fossils on mars, through which we can say that there was sure "life" performed.

[Blue Fire]

Yes, Mars is quite a sight these days! Even brighter than Venus they are saying - of course it is at it's closest approach to Earth right now for the next 10 years or so, so no wonder.

I too look forward to further study of Mars and the possibility of life having arose there in the distant past. We are already pretty sure that Mars had running water long ago and that is a significant piece of evidence for past life. I don't know about finding fossils though - we'd have to start some serious digging/excavating I fear... unless one of the rovers operating there happen to stumble across something unambiguous. Also, I'm not sure about the conditions on Mars that would allow fossils to form - that is, would those processes required for fossils to form be similar to those on Earth? I'm fairly ignorant in that area. But I'm still hopeful that we'll find more evidence of some form or another of life on Mars in the past - maybe even some form of bacterial life now that is hiding underground somewhere.

[Dragon Star]

10 years? Really? I didn't know that, no wonder all these Mars images are popping up everywhere.

[Blue Fire]

Actually it's 9 years I see after checking for sure - Mars won't be this close again until 2016 they are saying.