an attempt at poetry

Another retrieved from facebook file. This was an assignment for my Astronomy class. Sometimes with projects like this, I get really into them. And the outcome makes me really excited. I actually got too excited about this project and ended up doing it slightly wrong and didn't get the A+++++ I was hoping for :( But I had fun! And I love Mars!

Mars was so mysterious
Once upon a time ago,
A man, quite delirious,
Percival Lowell took a go
And claimed to see canals on Mars through telescope.
The public went ballistic!
“The Martian’s!” They would scream.
Other scholars deemed “Unrealistic!”
But public favor did over dream
It took years of great revival
To get things settled down
Famous books arose about survival
From Martian wars with much-a frown.
Theories rose and theories fell
On what Mars was really like
Around 1965, Mariner 4, chimed her bell
And told Martian-believers to take a hike.
Photographs of barren land
Rocks and dirt, and dirt and rocks
Lots of craters, made things bland
No civilization or ounce of biological stock
Further explorations went to prove
Mars was dead.
No magma squish to make land move
Iron made Mars dirt red.
The atmosphere was much to thin and chill
And mostly CO2,
To handle life with any frill…
Mars would need more heat to brew
But wait there’s more!!
Scientists can all conclude
The life right now is just a bore.
But could there, would there, in the past
Be a sign of life, that died out last?
More missions sent.
Photographs and data came back
Careful analysis underwent…
Evidence of water? That’s wack!
However possible! It may seem!!
Geological finds are similar to Earthy rock
Suggests some H2O on this reddish rock
Samples of a little pebble
Show similarities of Earth’s hematite-y!
A rock formed here by water:
On a planet named after the lover of Aphrodite!
Life no more, but life again?
What else is new on this red sphere?
A space stations there in 2010!
A future there could soon be near!