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THE PLANET MARS.—In No. 360 of the Observatory Mr. Wesley discusses the photographs of the planet Mars which Mr. Lowell recently published. Mr. Wesley has made a very careful study of the six prints, and has been able to distinguish easily, on one or another of them, the features named by Mr. Lowell. He is not, however, prepared to corroborate the opinion expressed by the latter that the photographs confirm the fact that the so-called “canals” are continuous lines, for imperfect definition might render a row of dots as an unbroken line. As the Lowell photographs are too small to reproduce satisfactorily, Mr. Wesley has made, a composite drawing showing all the features seen on any of the prints, and this is given as a frontispiece.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 72, 388 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072388a0
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