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“Are they worlds, or are they mere masses of matter? Are physical forces alone at work there or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.”
Percival Lowell (in ref. 1, p. 3)
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Thanks to J. Moore for many talks and access to the Moore Memorial Library of Mars Arcana.
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Zahnle, K. Decline and fall of the martian empire . Nature 412, 209–213 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35084148
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