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For today’s photo post, we have a puzzle: how is the Panama Canal related to the Planet Mars?
Continuing on our earlier Mars theme, this is the Panama Canal, as viewed from the top of Ancon Hill in November 2009. Many giant ship container cranes are visible, together with shipping contains, and builds. There is a tiny-looking ship off to the left, and mountains, grass, clouds, and sky in the distance. The blue water of the canal runs through the center of the photo. Wait, did we say Mars theme? What does the Panama Canal have to do with Mars?
Photo credit: Wikimedia/Brian Gratwicke/CC-BY-2
A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed.
[…] we presented a puzzle photo. We promised to explain the relationship between the Panama Canal and Mars. Shown here in glorious black and white is the 1887 map by Italian astronomer Giovanni […]