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 Percival Lowell (1855)Lowell was an astronomer who built a privateobservatory in Arizonato study Mars and championed the idea that intelligent inhabitants of the Red Planet had constructed a planetwide system of irrigation there. He believed that the so-called canals of Mars were bands of cultivated
vegetation dependent on this irrigation.His theory, long vigorously
opposed, was finally put to rest by images taken by the US
Mariner spacecrafts. Lowell did,however, correctly predict the existence
of what "planet"? |
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