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Martian canals depicted by Percival Lowell. The hypothesis that there was life on Mars originated from seasonal changes observed in surface features, which began to be interpreted as due to seasonal growth of plants (in fact, Martian dust storms are responsible for some of this).
Percival Lowell was born on March 13, 1855, [1] [2] [3] in Boston, Massachusetts, the first son of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lowell. A member of the Brahmin Lowell family, his siblings included the poet Amy Lowell, the educator and legal scholar Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and Elizabeth Lowell Putnam, an early activist for prenatal care.
Monument commemorating the landing place of Percival Lowell, Anamizu Town, Noto, Ishikawa, Japan. The town of Anamizu commemorates Lowell's visit to Noto with two memorials, one (erected 1981) located opposite Anamizu railway station, and the second (erected 2000) at the Manai River pier. [4]
The Lowell crater is a large impact crater on Aonia Terra in the Thaumasia quadrangle of Mars. [1] The crater is about 203 kilometers (127 miles) in diameter. Lowell is an example of a well-preserved peak ring crater on Mars. Lowell's ejecta blanket and associated secondary craters are dissected by channels. [2]
The family had emigrated to Boston from England in 1639, led by the patriarch Percival Lowle (c. 1570–1664/1665). The surname was spelt in many ways until it was standardised as Lowell from about 1721, apparently by the Rev. John Lowell. It was a later John Lowell (1743–1802) from whom the famous dynasty was descended.
It was included in Percival Lowell's 1895 map of Mars. [1] Richard A. Proctor's map of Mars, which named albedo features after astronomers. North is at the bottom as seen through an inverting telescope. Under the name of De La Rue Ocean it was included in Procter's 1905 map of Mars.
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Percival Lowell believed he could see a network of artificial canals on Mars. [1] These linear features later proved to be an optical illusion, and the atmosphere was found to be too thin to support an Earth-like environment. Yellow clouds on Mars have been observed since the 1870s, which Eugène M. Antoniadi suggested were windblown sand or ...