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12 March 2012 9:12 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Disney has a problem – its latest epic is set on Mars, but the red planet's big-screen domination is now over. Scientific advances mean it's no place to battle aliens

For centuries, the planet Mars occupied a unique place in the human imagination. Hanging low and bloodshot in the night sky, it emanated mystery and menace. The Babylonians named it after their god of death and destruction. The ancient Chinese took its advent as a portent of grief and war. It's not surprising that it should have come to be considered the likeliest haunt of extraterrestrial creatures.

Science used to endorse this idea, with early observations suggesting that the planet had seas and vegetation. In 1877, an Italian astronomer mapped the straight lines on its surface that came to be interpreted as irrigation canals. During the years that followed, radio signals from Mars were thought to have been picked up in Colorado, »

- David Cox

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