Hints: Mars pervasive Percival Lowell Martian obsession

I think it is exciting. Because it would imply that if life arose independently on Mars. The implication is that life is pervasive throughout the universe.
This is why Mars has so obsessed scientists. If life has arisen independently on the planet just next to us, then the chances must be that life be everywhere, in which case, we are not alone.
The idea of life on Mars was first popularized by an American astronomer called Percival Lowell in the 1890s. He claimed he could see evidence of a civilization on Mars. The lines crisscrossing its surface he believed were not geological accidents, but canals linking Martian cities.
Lowell's vision inspired a global obsession with aliens, and spawned thousands of movies about little green men.

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