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Percival Lowell felt that the canals on Mars were indicative of the engineering efforts of an advanced civilization .

We now know there were no canals; they were an optical illusion. But it is thought that Mars might have some microscopic life forms, as there is water and carbon available, the basic building blocks of life on Earth.

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