Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 209
is one of thebest known regions of the planet, also a dark, oval, isolated spot,about 530 miles in its longest diameter, and formerly called veryappropriately the Oculus, or eye of Mars. First observed byMaedler in 1830, charted as Terby Sea on Greens map, it isnow known as Salts Lactts, after… … MARS AS SEEN WITH THE 30-INCH TELESCOPE•AT NICE, 2D JULY 18S8 (PERROTIN) The Ruddy Planet 165 and very dark. Mr Douglass has still farther subdivided it(page 166). Schiaparelli has often seen a large part of theplanets disk, particularly near the polar regions, sprinkled withminute white spots, for…
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