Labels: text | screenshot | machine OCR: FIRST OBSERVATIONS THE CANALS OF MARS OBSERVATIONS OF SPACE PROBES These canals run either into the seas or other canals; they are never dead-ends. And Schiaparelli discovered that the canals can change appearance over time. On November 27, 1879, he identified a canal which he called Jamina; the following day, he said, the canal had become very dark. What dreams these ideas conjured up! Could these canals have been laid out by intelligent beings to channel water from the polar caps to arid regions? They did seem to resemble a vast and complex irrigation system. Though Flammarion admitted he had never observed them, he immediately embraced the canal hypothesis. MARS BETAT
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