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    here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter H – N (see also lists for A – G and O – Z). Large Martian craters (greater than 60 kilometers...
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  • Township (disambiguation) Lowell glacier, near the Alsek River, Canada Lowell (lunar crater) Lowell (Martian crater) Lowell Observatory, astronomical...
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    ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. "Lunar crater Lowell". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program. "Martian crater Lowell". Gazetteer of Planetary...
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    Newspaper and magazine articles about Martian canals and "Martians" captured the public imagination. Lowell published his views in three books: Mars...
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    Mars strongly contrast with the cratered terrain in southern highlands – this terrain observation is known as the Martian dichotomy. Mars hosts many enormous...
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    Life on Mars (redirect from Martian life)
    on Earth Mars in fiction § Life on Mars Martian craters Martian dichotomy Martian geyser Martian gullies Martian soil Mineralogy of Mars Ore resources on...
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    Barsoom (redirect from Martian series)
    published by Lowell, but erroneously substituted the number of 24-hour Earth days in the Martian year, rather than the number of 24.6-hour Martian days, which...
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    Water on Mars (redirect from Martian water)
    of the Martian Polar Swiss-cheese Features". American Astronomical Society. 34: 837. Bibcode:2002DPS....34.0301B. "Water ice in crater at Martian north...
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    Areography (redirect from Martian meridian)
    Magnetic field of Mars Mars Geyser Hopper Martian craters Martian dichotomy Martian geyser Martian gullies Martian soil Mineralogy of Mars Ore resources on...
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    Mars in fiction (redirect from Martian)
    The conception of Martians as decadent was largely derived from Percival Lowell's vision of Mars. The first appearance of Martians characterized by decadence...
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    The definition of the Martian prime meridian has since been refined on the basis of spacecraft imagery as the center of the crater Airy-0 in Terra Meridiani...
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    curate unconscious. A Martian removes the curate's body, but the narrator escapes detection. The Martians abandon the cylinder's crater, and the narrator...
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    Giovanni Schiaparelli purported to have discovered a series of martian canals. Percival Lowell had seen these drawings and was fascinated by the idea of artificial...
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  • 1,624 craters (31.2%)   Venusian: 900 craters (17.3%)   Mercurian: 397 craters (7.6%)   Martian: 1,092 craters (21.0%)   Others: 1,198 craters (23.0%)...
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    crater Lampland was named after him. The Martian crater Lampland was also named after him. The C.O. Lampland Collection is maintained at the Lowell Observatory...
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  • This is an incomplete list of Martian canals from the erroneous belief in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that "Martian canals" existed on the surface...
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    especially on the walls of craters. Martian gullies are believed to be relatively young because they have few, if any craters. Moreover, they lie on top...
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    signature of water in the Martian atmosphere, the idea of life on Mars became popularized among the public. Percival Lowell believed he could see a network...
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    populated by intelligent Martians exploded in the late 19th century. Schiaparelli's "canali" observations combined with Percival Lowell's books on the subject...
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    location of many Martian gullies that may be due to recent flowing water. Some are found in many craters near the large craters Lowell, Douglass and Ross...
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    The Gods of Mars (category Martian novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
    ten-year separation with Dejah Thoris, their unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately...
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    Schiaparelli, named on 15 September 1989 (M.P.C. 15090). The lunar crater Schiaparelli The Martian crater Schiaparelli Schiaparelli Dorsum on Mercury The 2016 ExoMars'...
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  • 301. January 1939. de Vaucouleurs, G.; et al. (September 1975). "The new Martian nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union". Icarus. 26 (1):...
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  • imagined in the 1950s. The Martian canals were long discredited, but it was not thought that Mars had mountains or craters. Seasonal changes visible from...
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    article Martian canals. Note that the pronunciation refers to English pronunciation, not Latin or Italian. Aspledon Undae Dark dune spots List of craters on...
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    hemisphere of the Moon, with a diameter of 22 km, as well as the Focas Martian crater in the northern hemisphere of Mars with a diameter of 76.5 km. Phokas...
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    Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 (H 78). The lunar crater Pickering and the Martian crater Pickering were also named in honor of the two astronomers...
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    Moon (section Impact craters)
    been found for 2–10 million years old basaltic volcanism within the crater Lowell, inside the Orientale basin. Some combination of an initially hotter...
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    Welles), Percival Lowell's 1908 book Mars as the Abode of Life with a map of his proposed canals, Ray Bradbury's 1950 novel The Martian Chronicles, and...
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    Lampland, of the Lowell Observatory, measured large differences between the day and night temperatures on Mars, which implied a thin Martian atmosphere. For...
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