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Unit 1 Astronomy Script Lisa: Hello, Mark, did you hear the planet Mars came close to Earth in August, closer than it has been in the past sixty-thousand years? Mark: Yes, this event helped create a huge interest in the science of astronomy. Lisa:I know people have always watched the beautiful night sky. Many ancient people of the world closely studied the stars for signs from their gods, such as, um… Mark: Such as the ancient people of Egypt, Greece, Italy and China. Lisa: Exactly. The people who lived on the islands of the Pacific even used the stars to find their way across huge areas of ocean. Mark: Right. The people of Earth today still look to the stars for information -- not about ancient gods, but about the universe. Modern technology has made it possible to see objects in space that are thousands of millions of kilometers away. Lisa:However, without technology you can see all of the same objects in the night sky that ancient people saw. There is a lot to see and study. Mark: You said it. Come to think of it, ancient people who watched the night sky considered five great mysteries. These mysteries were objects that moved from place to place. Some of these objects seemed to move straight ahead. Others seemed to move in one direction for a while and then move back in the opposite direction. Some could be seen for a few months and then disappeared. But they did not seem to shine like other stars.Almost every ancient culture knew of these five mysteries. The ancient Greeks called them planetes. (PLAN-ee-teess).The word means wanderer -- one who moves from place to place with no home. Lisa: On a dark, clear night, away from the lights of a city, we can still find the five wanderers using only our eyes. However they are no longer mysteries. Today we know them as Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and the closest planet to Earth, the red planet, Mars. Mark:Mars is only one of the many interesting objects that can be seen at night. Lisa: Hey, do you want to learn more