Jo Steer

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Italian Galileo Galilei looked at the planet through a telescope.

For the first time.

Soon.

Scientists were able to make drawings of the planet's surface.

And to note specific features like its polar caps.

that had previously been unseeable.

Observers figured out the planet's rotation.

And began to study its atmosphere.

And seasons.

Over the following centuries.

Astronomers kept their telescopes frequently trained on the red planet.

Making many more discoveries.

In 1877, for example, a watcher at the US Naval Observatory spotted two moons circling Mars.

Also, in the eighteen hundreds,

Astronomers in Germany and Italy began to produce maps of the planet.

Documenting its features as observed through telescopes.

One of these features in particular provoked great interest and in many ways

Launched the modern era of Mars Fever.

There was a series of intersecting lines on the Martian surface.

Something an observer in Italy named Canali.

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