Check for the words "like" or "as". They are hints to the simile.
Well I can answer what the word beast suggests about the text.
I think it is suggests that they don't know much about the people of Mars, the life forms that lived there so they are frightened of them. They know that they are intelligent, or were, but also acknowledge how the planet is nearly impossible to sustain life with all of its water frozen.
Hope that helped, I don't know much about English class in highschool yet so I wasn't sure exactly how to answer the question.
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Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney, the junior United States senator from California, and the vice president-elect of the United States
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