MERCURY—* THE SPARKLING ONE” nomers as to the accuracy of this result, but now the truth of Schiaparelli’s discovery is generally accepted. Let us try to imagine what sort of a world Mercury must be. Rotating on its axis only once during its journey round tle orb of day, it turns the same face to… … of the planet is bathed in perpetual sunshine, the other is shrouded in everlasting night. One side is baked with heat, and the other is frozen with cold. No wonder that the surface, as the observations of Professor Lowell indi- cate, is cracked in all directions. The surface of Mercury, he says,…
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