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This story appears in the March 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine ... As he drew on his maps (above) and described in a 1906 book, Percival Lowell believed Mars was a dying world covered ...

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National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry traveled the globe to document killer whale pods—where he found that diving with these special creatures can lead to strange and wonderful situations.