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Mars is older than Earth and receives less light and heat from the Sun. It has a smaller volume and its cooling has accelerated, making it possible for life to exist. However, humans have underestimated the possibility of intelligent life on Mars. Mars is closer to the end of its life cycle and its temperature is much colder than Earth's. The physical conditions on Mars are still unknown, but even in its equatorial region, the temperature is similar to our coldest winters. The planet Mars, need I remind the reader, revolves around from the Sun at an average distance of 225 million kilometers, and the light and heat it receives from the Sun are just half of what our sphere receives. If the hypothesis of nebulae has some truth, the planet Mars must be older than ours, and long before this Earth solidified, life on its surface had to begin its course. The fact that its volume is barely one-seventh of Earth's must have accelerated its cooling up to the temperature where life can be born. It looks and looks water in all that is necessary for animated existences. Yet man is so vain and so blinded by his vanity, that until even at the end of the 19th century, no writer expressed the idea that their intelligent life, if there was one, had been able to develop far beyond human proportions. Few people even knew that, since Mars is older than our Earth, with barely a quarter of its surface area, and at a greater distance from the Sun it naturally follows, this planet is not only farther from the beginning of life, but also closer to its end. The secular cooling that must one day reach our planet is already well advanced in our neighbor. Physical conditions are still largely a mystery, but already now we know that even in its equatorial region, the midday temperature barely reaches that of our coldest winters.