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PICS: Know all about the Red Planet

Book on Mars tells all about its mysteries

The slim volume has information about how Mars was formed, what it looks like up close, whether or not there was any water on it and if there was ever any life there. Das, the book's author, explains that Mars had been called the Red Planet by ancient Greeks and the Romans because it appeared in the night sky as a star bathed in the colour of blood.