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WHERE LOWELL OPENED EYES TO MARS AND THE UNIVERSE
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. If NASA is able to use data from the Spirit and
Opportunity rovers to discover traces of water on Mars, it would have
come as no surprise to Percival Lowell. The amateur astronomer and
mathematician from Boston's aristocratic Lowell family was so
convinced that dark thin lines he saw on Mars were artificial canals
built by intelligent beings that he spent 15 years of his life
studying the planet, and used part of his fortune to found in 1894 an
observatory dedicated to interplanetary research.
Today, on a high mesa called Mars Hill, just west of Flagstaff,
visitors to the ...
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