Mars and Its Mystery

In the experience of an astronomer, it is not an unusual occurrence that an object in the heavens, fairly conspicuous, remains unseen until by some lucky chance an observer swee...

"To all forms of life of which we have any conception, two things in Nature are vital, air and water." Has it an atmosphere? Without air no change could take place. The Moon wit...

Mr. Maunder in speaking of the nomenclature used in his report says, "The term 'canal' has also been retained, though 'canals' in the sense of being artificial productions, the...

A fair sample of the subjects which occupy the astronomers' mind, and which are so remote from the study of planetary markings, and have so little interest for the public, may b...

In examining the Earth, then, as we have examined Mars, the Martian would find large yellow and reddish areas, extensive greenish areas, and, besides, large regions of varying s...

It is impossible to follow these various drawings of Mars from the earliest ones of the first period, many of little value, to the slow yet certain advance as seen in the more d...

In a planet devoid of atmosphere, or a sphere glowing with its own heat, we may decide without question that life does not exist. Even in a globe in many respects like our own i...

In Plate V, page 112, are given six figures representing various cracks and fissures. No. 1 represents the cracks in the glaze of Japanese pottery, magnified. No. 2 shows the mu...

To enumerate, in the broadest way, the variety of conditions under which life exists here, one has only to enumerate creatures living in the deepest abysses of the ocean; high u...

The following pages have been written for the general reader. The controversies over the interpretation of the curious markings of Mars and the wide divergence of opinion as to...

Once proved that the markings of Mars are due to erosion, cracks, encircling meteors big enough to raise ridges by their attractive force, then all that has been written in demo...