Earth Men, From Mars?

(Above) NASA’s Voyager I Image, 1976

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the Solar System, like all planets in our Solar System; it is tilted along its axis (axial tilt). For Mars, the axial tilt is just over 25 degrees; whereas Earth’s axial tilt is 23.5 degrees; because this tilt is similar to Earth’s, Mars has seasons like ours. However the Martian seasons are much longer because a year on Mars is nearly twice as long as an Earth year.

The orbit of Mars is the second most eccentric / unusual in the Solar System. Only Mercury’s orbit is more peculiar.  At perihelion (when nearest to the sun) Mars is a bit more than 206,600,000 km from the Sun and at aphelion (when farthest from the Sun) it is a little over 249,200,000 km distant. The average distance from Mars to the Sun (called the semi-major axis) is 228 million km. It takes Mars approximately 687 Earth days to complete one orbit. Since the orbit of a planet often varies somewhat because of the gravitational influences of nearby bodies that surround it, such as the two moons (Phobos and Deimos) of Mars, the eccentricity can change over long periods of time.

For a lot of years now, Mars has had an elliptical (egg-shaped) orbit. The result most obvious to us: The planets southern winters are long and extreme while the northern winters of Mars are not as harsh; none the less, both hemispheres harbor conditions that are rather unfavorable to life as we know it.  

As recently as 1.35 million years ago, Mars was in a nearly circular orbit.  Yet another important fact is that astronomers know that the current tilt of Mars’ axis is just a fluke. Unlike Earth, the planet’s tilt has changed dramatically over long periods of time.  This is likely the result of the two satellites or moons which are believed to be “captured” asteroids, perhaps at different dates in the distant past.

Scientists of Earth are convinced that somewhere around 3.5 billion years ago the climate on Mars was similar to that of early Earth: warm and wet; although today the Mars atmosphere is very thin and made-up of 95% carbon dioxide. To make the Mars environment less attractive the temperature is rather cold, and what little water remains is either frozen in the Martian poles or hidden in deep underground springs.  In fact the surface temperature on Mars will only reach a high of 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) at noon, but only in areas near the equator in the dead of summer, and will quickly plunge to a low of 225 below 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-153 degrees Celsius) in regions of close proximity to either pole.

For thousands of years the atmosphere of Mars has lacked a protecting ozone layer, which allows much of the Sun's dangerous ultraviolet radiation to reach the surface of the planet and it’s of some interest to know that the gravity on Mars is only about 38% of Earth's, so, if you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you’d only weigh about 38 pounds on Mars.

Theories flourish in regard to what type of event occurred that ultimately led to the apparent lifeless environment we call the 4^th rock from the sun / Mars.  Was it a natural event or the result of a serious mishap of an established race of beings, humanoid or otherwise?  Not unlike most folks I have a theory that is as believable as any.

Several billion years ago, let’s theorize 3.51 billion years past, the surface of Mars was bombarded by several asteroids from deep space. As a result a relatively small technologically advanced humanoid society faced potential doom; fortunately, the after-effects of this unhappy event spanned a period of nearly a hundred years.

The impacts of the asteroids prompted repeated volcanic eruptions all across the relatively small planet’s surface, thus spewing billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which eventually destroyed the planets ozone layer and the oxygen rich atmosphere.    The good news is that this was a really slow process, therefore allowing the more advanced segments of the planets civilization to escape to a more “life-friendly” local within the solar system; specifically, the 3^rd planet from the Sun they called Earth.

It’s common knowledge that members of the ancient Zulu tribe from South Africa insist that their ancestors were indigenous (native) to the planet Mars, who came to planet Earth and inhabited the Sahara desert which was then a tropical rainforest. 

Further evidence of “beyond Earth” influence is easily found in long held accounts told by the Mayans & Aztecs of Meso-America, who have legends of gods from the sky; the old Chinese emperors themselves emphasized their claim that their ancestors were the descendants of the “sons of the heaven”, who came to this planet by way of metallic “dragons”. The Bible, the Thora, the Quran and ancient Mesopotamian legends speak of angelic or godly beings, also called “sons of god”, which came from the heavens and allegedly in-bred with the humans; you may recall that these offspring (“Nephilim”) were described as “giants”, which were larger and more robust when compared to humans of that era.

Although such legends are generally not specific in describing the precise region of the solar system from which such beings arrived, there is at least one exception: The Dogon Tribe of West Africa which is specific as to where the race of “teachers” came from. As was published in an earlier post, titled “The Nommos”, they came from the Sirius star system and visited Earth thousands of years ago. The Nommos were ugly, amphibious beings that resembled mermaids and mermen. Such beings as the Nommos also appear in Babylonian and Sumerian myths. You may recall that the Egyptian Goddess Isis is sometimes depicted as a mermaid, who is also often linked with the star Sirius. The observable conclusion is that many other legendary “gods” were likely as not, native to Mars.

The Theory of The Big Bang resulted in the universe (including our solar system) being formed, some 14 billion years ago; as indicated above, within 9 or 10 billion years or so thereafter (perhaps, 3.0 billion years ago), the Martian surface cooled to an ideal environment for the development of life forms; in all likelihood, much like early Homo sapiens (humans), known to have suddenly appeared on the African continent of Earth just 200,000 years past.

If you are one of those folks who disregard such myths or legend as pure fantasy, keep in mind that the legendary city of Troy was considered as such until it was discovered in 1870; this fact was reinforced in 1998 when it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. 

If you’re still not convinced consider the alternative:    It is generally accepted that the Homo sapiens (Human) species of planet Earth originated in Africa, where it reached structural modernity about 200,000 years ago.  Further, if you choose to believe this “standard story line”, the human lineage somehow “split” from its common ancestor and closest living relative, the chimpanzee, some five million years ago, evolving into the Australopithecines and eventually the category of Homo. The first Homo species to move out of Africa is said to be Homo erectus, the African variety of which, together with Homo heidelbergensis, is said to be the immediate ancestor to all of us modern humans.

As the story goes, Homo sapiens proceeded to colonize the various continents of Earth, arriving in Eurasia (Europe and Asia) 125,000 to 60,000 years ago; Australia around 40,000 years ago; the Americas around 15,000 years ago; and remote islands such as Hawaii, Easter Island, Madagascar, and New Zealand between the years 300 AD and 1280 AD.

If you readily accept this belief, you are apt to also believe the ever popular science fiction film production of “Planet of The Apes” was in fact a documentary. Case in point, both theories have their draw-backs.

There may be a connection between Egypt and Mars: Giza, where the three great pyramids are standing, as everyone knows borders Cairo, the capital of Egypt. In ancient times Cairo was the name for the Greek god Aries, later called Mars by the Romans. You see, Mars was originally the god of agriculture prior to becoming the god of war, so you could say mankind considered feeding himself a bit more important than war in the early days of civilization.   In the Arabic language the place Caïro is known as “Al Qahiri”, which literally means “Mars”. 

With all these things being considered, perhaps the strongest support for a “men from Mars” argument has been already been discovered on the red planet and is depicted by the reputable “Face on Mars” as was originally photographed by NASA’s Viking 1 unmanned mission on July 25, 1976.

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Sources:

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http://www.unmuseum.org/siriusb.htm

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