Life on Mars life were found. Mariner 4 probe performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface in 1965. The photographs showed an arid Mars without rivers, oceans, or any signs of life. Further, it revealed that the surface (at least the parts that it photographed) was covered in craters, indicating a lack of plate tectonics and weathering of any kind for the last 4 billion years. The probe also found that Mars has no global magnetic field that would protect the planet from potentially life-threatening cosmic rays. The probe was able to calculate
Jesus on Mars Orme reaffirms his commitment and the novel ends abruptly with a sense of the years of impending struggle against the forces of evil. Greg Costikyan reviewed "Jesus on Mars" in "Ares Magazine" #1. Costikyan commented that ""Jesus on Mars" would be brilliant if it were written by a novice; but from Farmer, one expects better things." Jesus on Mars Jesus on Mars is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, set on Mars and involving an alien civilization. It makes social commentary on a just society and on religious belief. An unmanned scientific probe sent to