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1: Mars, just a blue dot in the sky, surrounded by stars.
Caption: And when we first saw it… those flashes of light, blinking from Mars…

2: It flashes. For a brief second, it grows brighter.
Caption: You could almost, just barely, see it with your eyes if you looked close enough…

3: Mars grows dark again, blending in with the stars.
Caption: …but the telescopes? They saw it easily.

4: An astronomer – a snake, eyes open wide – stares into the eyepiece of a telescope.
Caption: After thousands and thousands of years of silence, of calmly shining across the gulf of space…

5: Mars shines again.
Caption: …it pulsed with light, shining right at us.

6: Mars is dark, and then,

7: As if blinking, it shines.
Caption: Mars spoke.

Hover text: WHAT DO YOUR SNAKE EYES SEE