Before we set up colonies on Mars, we need to discuss renaming its moons | Fortunato Salazar

Keeping Phobos and Deimos, which means 'fear' and 'terror', implies it's totally cool to demonize our neighbor in the sky

In the last five months, Mars has become a whole lot more like " us. We have flowing water; Mars has flowing water. We have underground water; Mars has underground water. We have auroras in the night sky; so does Mars. In just the last five months, we and Mars have grown a whole lot closer, beyond our basic adjacency in the solar system. It's reasonable to think that Matt Damon's recent triumph of ingenuity and self-sufficiency over Martian inhospitality might soon come true.

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