First ever photo transmitted from the Martian surface by the Soviet Mars 3 probe. 

Supposedly nothing in these pixels has anything to do with anything. 

Good night everyone. And good luck.

Martian irrigation design.

From CE Housden 1914 The riddle of Mars: the planet

Mars needs Wiccans

From Pubblicazioni dell’ Osservatorio privato di Collurania (Teramo), Issues 1-3 (1898)

Oceans of Mars.

From GV Schiaparelli (1877) - Osservazioni astronomiche e fisiche sull’asse di rotazione e sulla topografia del planeta marte - Volume 1.

Artificial lines.

From Mars and its mystery - E.S. Morse 1906 

Ibid.

“Sprouting Times of Vegetation on Mars” from Mars as the abode of life - Percival Lowell (1910).