During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed that there were "canals" on the planet Mars. These were a network of long straight lines in the equatorial regions from 60° north to 60° south latitude on Mars, observed by astronomers using …

Canals of Mars, apparent systems of long, straight linear markings on the surface of Mars that are now known to be illusions caused by the chance alignment of craters and other natural surface features seen in telescopes near the limit of resolution.

2011年10月6日 · The Canals of Mars became one of the most intense and wrongheaded obsessions in the history of science, capturing the popular imagination through dozens of newspaper and magazine articles, as...

In 1886 several astronomers confirmed Schiaparelli's study of Mars and interpreting these canals became an important issue. Unlike the oceans, the canals seemed to suggest clear evidence of the work of extraterrestrials on the landscape of Mars.

The canals of Mars-historical note Lowell's Drawings of Canals The Lowell observatory, founded in 1894 at Flagstaff, with a 24" telescope, studied linear features on Mars, as well as the seasonal changes in polar caps.

2015年9月28日 · The scientific advances and odd misunderstandings that convinced many that Mars was full of canals built by an advanced civilization.

2022年3月13日 · Mars, Earth's closets neighbor, has been the focus of astronomical research for centuries. More recently, unmanned vehicles roam its dusty surface hunting for traces of ancient life. These expeditions are rooted in a theory dating back more than a hundred years: There were and still are canals on Mars constructed by an intelligent civilization.

2015年10月8日 · NASA has announced that water has been discovered on Mars. This isn’t the first time water on Mars has caused a ruckus: around the turn of the 20th century, many believed that an advanced Martian civilization had transformed the planet into a complex network of canals to bring precious water from its polar icecaps.

2024年12月10日 · In the late 19th century, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli inflamed the world's imagination with his claim to have seen long, straight channels (mistranslated as "canals" in English) on the surface of Mars.

2019年3月14日 · The Martian Cannals. When the term was incorrectly translated, numerous research attempts were made about life on Mars as well as its conditions. The ‘canals’ became very popular and the result was a rise of hypotheses, and mad speculations on the possibilities of intelligent life on Mars. Theories about the ‘Martians’ established.