Canals on Mars? (Martian Life, Alien Life, Extraterrestrials, Exobiology)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Lowell Observatorium
Percival lowell was a polymath who dedicated himself to astronomy. He built an observatory in flagstaff, Arizona that helped discover pluto. Lowell also took an interest in the idea there must be an undiscovered planet beyond neptune.
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Transcript
After 19th-century astronomers said Mars has a worldwide network of canals, people speculated there was not just life but a civilization there. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore whether there is life on Mars, and if so, how it got there and what it is like. 
