Un uomo entra in un caffè dopo aver scalato la tazzina utilizzando il cucchiaino lasciato incustodito ed appoggiato al bordo del raffinato e piccolo recipiente di porcellana. Data la sua lillipuziana statura, nessuno ne aveva notato la presenza e nessuno ne avrebbe indovinato le intenzioni.
Tempo di lettura: 7minutiReal color image of Mars taken by the Rosetta probe in 2007
We are in 1960: a fundamental year for the growing earthly dream of reaching Mars, a destination for conquest, the new frontier of science and the cradle of a good part of science fiction literature. Maybe the desire for exploration was born only to remove the doubts about the existence of the dreaded Martian spaceships of which Orson Welles, in his famous show of 1938, told the landing in New Jersey, reinterpreting to the radio “The War of the Worlds” by Herbert George Wells.
But how far is Mars from the Earth and how long does it take to get there?
