Fantastically Wrong: One Astronomer’s Quest to Expose the Alien-Built Canals of Mars

Percival Lowell was quite convinced that an alien race occupied Mars. And he even had the evidence to prove they existed: an immense network of canals carved into the Martian surface that he spied through a telescope.

















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