straight channels (mistranslated as "canals" in English) on the surface of Mars. These channels were seen by other astronomers and were thought by some to be indicative of intelligent life and ...

Mars was a dream board, an otherworldly realm of potentiality, specter canals and specter cities. But with our robot ...

But that didn’t kill the prospect of Martian life. Mars missions have not found alien-built canals. But they have found plenty of other features that look like they were carved by liquid water.

Martians Build Canals! Percival Lowell peered through a telescope on an Arizona hilltop and saw the ruddy surface of Mars crisscrossed with canals. Hundreds of miles long, they extended in single ...

There’s something about Mars. It tickles the imagination like no other planet; in our stories about it, fact and fiction tend to blur. Nineteenth-century astronomers believed they saw canals on ...

In the 19th century, the idea of men on Mars took off after astronomer Giovanni ... This means channels, but it was wrongly translated into English as canals, and many people interpreted the ...

but he set Mars cartography back 50 years because people were trying to verify these canals. He drew them in a way that could only be interpreted as artificial.” Scientists at NASA’s Ames ...

More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from the Martian ice caps to its lower, drier latitudes.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, astronomers like Percival Lowell popularized the idea of Martian canals, suggesting that intelligent beings might have constructed them to transport ...

Ghost rivers, hidden lakes: The long search for water on Mars Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.