Mars will be seen best an hour or more after sunset. Backyard astronomers won't be able to see details of the surface with their telescopes unless those telescopes are 6 inches to 8 inches in diameter. It's a chance to take a gander at the place humans are most likely to colonize first in space. Among the planets in this solar system, the Red Planet has the environment closest to Earth's. It's a rocky planet, and, of all the planets, Mars' temperatures are the closest to Earth's.
Water is present, although frozen.
If there ever was intelligent life on Mars, the environmentalists lost. Mars has no ozone layer, so its surface is not protected from dangerous levels of ultraviolet light from the sun. Although Mars could not actually have spawned intelligent life, it is one of the most likely places in the solar system to have evolved life. The geology makes if appear as if liquid water, a crucial ingredient for life, was once present on the surface. Some astronomers argue that a meteorite discovered in Antarctica holds the remnants of ancient life on Mars.