ascraeeus

Updated: May 26, 2025

Looking at our map, which shows the north-polar snow below, so that the south pole is out of the view at the top of the map, the central feature is the large spot Ascraeeus Lucus, from which ten canals diverge centrally, and four from the sides, forming wide double canals, fourteen in all.

Alfred Russel Wallace - Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation