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Astronomy for amateurs (1904)

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 156

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reed to termsea the parts thatare lightly tinged with green, and Fig. 41.—Telescopic aspect of the planetto give the name ,, ,^ , . ^ Mars (Feb., 1901). o f continent t o the spots colored yellow. That is the hue of the Mar-tian soil, due either to the soil itself, which would re-semble that of the… … ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS has often remarked that the hue of the ripe corn, withthe Sun shining on it, is precisely that presented to usby the continents of Mars in the best hours for obser-vation. As to the *seas/* it is pretty certain that there mustbe water, or some kind of Hquid, deriving above…

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