I Saw Mars on the Horizon

A false Venus for but a day, that Tuesday the 13th. For that day, the golden countenance of the Star of the Sea was replaced by a surprisingly pleasant copper sheen as the next brightest light in the night sky. It will be another two years before the curious see that again. 

Mars has been many things to many peoples over the years. The Romans referred to themselves as the Marsii, or literally 'the Martians.' Perhaps appropriately, they and everyone else from at least the Sumerians who called it Nergal, associated this blood-like countenance with war. 

Perhaps one day, like all the planets one day will, Mars will be a mere way stop to somewhere else, or perhaps someone's home. So far, nuclear-fueled fantasies persist, but there have been conventionally fueled proposals. Notable among them have been those of Robert Zubrin. 

For now, only our eyes, aided or otherwise, may gaze upon its splendor. As did we tonight, didn't we little kitty, sitting on the fence? Such a show the heavens always presents!