Your Rights - Your Rights Chapter 4

In 1877, an astronomer Giovanni Skipperelli said he could see straight lines or channels on the planet surface. This took much speculation about the canals of Mars. In Flagstaff Arizona there is a famous observatory built in 1894 by a rich businessman, Percival Lowell. His plan was to use the telescopes to look for Martians. Scientists openly discussed the possibility that Mars was inhabited and astronomers searched eagerly for signs of life on the red planet.