what more can you tell me about this speculation?
He theorized that an advanced but desperate culture had built the canals to tap Mars' polar ice caps, the last source of water on an inexorably drying planet.
Percival Lowell
He theorized that an advanced but desperate culture had built the canals to tap Mars' polar ice caps, the last source of water on an inexorably drying planet.
in 1930 what name was not on the short-list of potential names for the planet pluto "Zeus" who discovered it initially? Percival Lowell when was it? March 19 and April 7, 1915 how is it classified? Dwarf planet or Minor Planet what is iau? The International Astronomical Union how does it categorize the aforesaid planet? As a dwarf planet when was this union formed? 28 July 1919 what was its objective? Its main objective is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international cooperation. what can you tell me about the discoverer? He was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.
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Percival Lowell [SEP] Canals of Mars
He theorized that an advanced but desperate culture had built the canals to tap Mars' polar ice caps, the last source of water on an inexorably drying planet. While this idea excited the public, the astronomical community was skeptical. Many astronomers could not see these markings, and few believed that they were as extensive as Lowell claimed. As a result, Lowell and his observatory were largely ostracized. Although the consensus was that some actual features did exist which would account for these markings, in 1909 the sixty-inch Mount Wilson Observatory telescope in Southern California allowed closer observation of the structures Lowell had interpreted as canals, and revealed irregular geological features, probably the result of natural erosion.