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 ...

Every now and then, robots on the surface of Mars, or the spacecraft orbiting the planet, send back some fascinating images ...

For many years Dr. Percival Lowell’s hypothesis, that the “canals” on Mars’ surface were irrigation canals, prolonged the Man from Mars’ existence. He is not wholly dead yet. Animal life ...

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 ...

Tombaugh believes that the canals are faults or fractures, several miles wide, in the Martian crust. Their darkening and fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that ...

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 ...