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Towards the end of the 20th century, some of our ideas about Mercury and Mars were mistaken, in part because of conclusions drawn by this astronomer from his own observations. Name the astronomer, the mistaken idea, and how it was corrected. Extra credit: At what observatory were his observations carried out.
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OK, if I scratch my Antoniadi idea then I'd have to go with Giovanno Schiaparelli, because he watched a Mars opposition and created the most detailed map of Mars AND he figured Mercury's rotation all wrong. He was at the
Brera Observatory in Milan Italy. His ideas about seas and water on Mars were shattered by the Mariner 4 in 1965. His idea about Mercury's rotation was killed by the Arecibo Radio Telescope. (Though apparently others had some ideas about the temperature of the alleged "far side" of Mercury). Then Mariner 10 mapped it.
I don't think Lowell fits the Mercury aspect, and then
IMO would have told y'all if you were correct. But what do I know?
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