of Arizona Peering through a telescope on the roof of Milan’s Brera palace in 1877, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli sketched the first detailed map of Mars. He dutifully named its ...

In the 19th century, the idea of men on Mars took off after astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed straight lines on Mars, which he called canali. This means channels, but it was wrongly ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On Oct. 19, the Schiaparelli lander entered the Martian atmosphere, scheduled for a safe touch down. But something went wrong, and for the last two days ...