Arizona and the murder of Mars

As mentioned in "The only planet with sweet potatoes," I was recently present at a preschool lesson about the solar system. One of the things that came up was the fact that, despite being called "fire planet" in Chinese, Mars is actually much colder than Earth.

This got me thinking of Mars as our planet's Cold Brother -- "brother" because it was in the past the most Earth-like of planets, with oceans and all that, before some sort of cataclysm a few million years ago.

That, in turn, reminded me of the statement "Mars was murdered." This message was delivered by some nonhuman entity to an occultist or alien abductee or something, but I couldn't remember who exactly had been involved. When I googled "mars was murdered" in quotes, the first result was this paywalled New Scientist article:

The emphasis on Tuscon, Arizona seems quite unusual. Having a city-name dateline like that at all in an article about another planet is a little strange. Also, the usual format is to have the dateline in the same font as the rest of the article, with a dash after it, but in this article they wrote it in huge bold type, nearly as big as the headline.

Arizona has appeared in two recent dreams ("Cold Brother" and "Among the giants"), in both of which I was serving there as a Mormon missionary. My real-life mission was mainly in Utah but did include a bit of Arizona, down to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. That part of the country even looks a bit like Mars, so much so that Barsoom (from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars novels) was used as a slang term for the southern Utah town of Moab.

As for Tucson specifically, my main association is the Beatles song "Get Back," which continues the gender-bending theme from "Lola" and "Walk on the Wild Side."