Labels: text | electronics | screenshot | machine OCR: FIRST OBSERVATIONS THE CANALS OF MARS G. V. Schiaparelli OBSERVATIONS OF SPACE PROBES THE CANALS OF MARS As early as 1864, the English astronomer William R. Dawes noticed dark lines running between the Martian seas and continents. Giovanni Schiaparelli is usually credited with having called these lines "canali," mistakenly translated as "canals," but the idea may have originally come from astronomer-priest Angelo Seccho. Conditions were excellent for observing Mars in 1877. Schiaparelli, who was then director of the Milan Observatory, equipped with a 218-millimeter telescope, saw strange crisscrossing lines on the Red Planet. He interpreted them as a network of canals: "The lines, like the seas, owe their color to the same cause and can only be canals or connecting straits." Schiaparelli's drawings show Mars's surface covered with long lines following straight paths. MARS BETAT
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