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schiaparelli

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What does schiaparelli mean?

proper noun

  1. A surname from Italian.
  2. Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer, who discovered canali, mistranslated as "canals", on Mars.
  3. A crater in Sinus Sabaeus, Mars, named for Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli
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proper noun

  1. A crater in Seleucus, Oceanus Procellarum, Moon, named for Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli
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Men like Schiaparelli watched the red planet—it is odd, by-the-bye, that for countless centuries Mars has been the star of war—but failed to interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they mapped so well.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe war of the worldsProject Gutenberg ebook #36