The Canals of Mars: An Assessment after Mariner 9
Abstract
The Lowellian canal network has been compared with the results of Mariner 9 photography of Mars. A small number of canals may correspond to rift valleys, ridge systems, crater chains, and linear surface albedo markings. But the vast bulk of classical canals correspond neither to topographic nor to albedo features, and appear to have no relation to the real Martian surface.
- Publication:
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Icarus
- Pub Date:
- August 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0019-1035(75)90042-1
- Bibcode:
- 1975Icar...25..602S
- Keywords:
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- Canals;
- Mariner 9 Space Probe;
- Mars Surface;
- Photointerpretation;
- Spaceborne Photography;
- Albedo;
- Craters;
- Ridges;
- Terrain Analysis;
- Topography;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration, Earth Science;
- Earth Science