Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and ...

Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and never more so than in recounting the endeavors of yesteryear’s gentleman scientists. In the case of “The Martians,” Percival Lowell fills that role, he of the ...