Featured on PDR in the collection Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals

Long before David Bowie asked if there was life on Mars, a wealthy American astronomer arrived on a clear-cut answer: yes, and it built canals.

The region known as Mare Erythraeum, drawn on the Martian date of December 30th. Illustration from Percival Lowell's Mars and its Canals, 1906

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1906

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Mars and its Canals


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