as mars is seen easily, ancient people were the first ones to know its exixtence. there is, however, no record which says that any single person discovered it.
mars was known to the indus civilizations and the indo-aryans from about 10,000 B.C. itself.
so we could say that early INDIANS were the first ones to find it.
2006-12-01 21:53:26
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answered by new_einstein 2
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Mars, along with Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn make up the list of planets known to the ancient world because a.) they were generally brighter than most stars to the naked eye and b.) they showed movement over time against the background of the "fixed stars"
So even though some individual first noticed these facts, his name is lost in the mists of time.
As a sidelight, the other planets have known discoverers: Uranus by Herschel, Neptune by Lavoisier.
2006-12-02 01:33:45
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answered by JIMBO 4
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As you can see on my link, Mars was known in the prehistoric times. Galileo studied that planet also.
2006-12-01 21:23:42
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answered by maussy 7
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Mars is easily visible. It's like asking who discovered the sun. As long as someone was looking up, they've seen it.
2006-12-01 21:16:37
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answered by eri 7
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The Egyptions and Greeks and historic Chinease faw mars interior the sky, definite you do not desire a telescope to work out it. The referred to as them wadering stars and named them after there gods because of the fact they did not persist with the the remainder of the celebrities around the anual cycle of the sky. yet who got here upon it is replaced into yet another international, that could desire to prolly could circulate to galileo who replaced into the 1st to determine it with a telescope and notice it replaced right into a disk and not in undemanding terms a pin pric of sunshine.
2016-12-10 20:16:42
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answered by mckinzie 4
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Adam
2006-12-01 21:16:51
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answered by G-Man 3
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