Lowell Observatory

Weekend Saturday (NPR) | July 5, 1997| | Copyright

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Pathfinder's arrival on Mars comes a century after Percival Lowell made unprecedented discoveries about that planet and captured public imagination by suggesting that life could exist there.

In 1896, the self-trained astronomer and New England aristocrat established an observatory on a hill top in what was then the Arizona Territory. Mr. Lowell had a telescope made in his home state of Massachusetts and shipped it in pieces to Flagstaff. What he learned there brought new ideas to science and science fiction.

Mike Lamp, of member station of KNAU ...

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