Mars in fiction from red-colored vegetation, and Schiaparelli observed what he took to be linear features on the face of Mars, which he thought might be water channels. Because the Italian for channels is "canali", English translations tended to render the word as "canals", implying artificial construction. Lowell's books on Mars expanded on this notion of Martian canals, and a standard model of Mars as a drying, cooling, dying world was established. It was frequently speculated that ancient Martian civilizations had constructed irrigation works that spanned the planet in an attempt at saving their dying world. This concept spawned a large number of
From Mars to Sirius most angry, mechanized portions of the album." Bergman concluded his review by praising "From Mars to Sirius" as an "immense, intense, and very impressive album." Personnel adapted from AllMusic. From Mars to Sirius From Mars to Sirius is the third studio album by the French progressive death metal band Gojira. "Rolling Stone" named the album no. 97 on their list of the top 100 greatest metal albums of all time, and "MetalSucks" named it no. 9 on their list of the 21 best metal albums of the 21st century. AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia describes the album as marking a turning point