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Galilleo was the first person to spot the canali on Mars using a crude early telescope. He sketched what he saw on the surface of the planet and looking at a comparison of his drawings with a modern day sattelite image he was incredibly accurate.

It is now believed that the canali on Mars exist as a result of water that used to flow (and some believe still does occasionally) on the planets surface.

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