Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1880 — The Planet Mars. [ARTICLE]

The Planet Mars.

Pfol Lockyer thinks that human lift on the planet Mara may be very muoh like human life on the earth. Although the light cannot be so bright, yet the organs of sight of the in belli tants may be so much more susceptible aa to make their vision quite as good as ours. Probably the heat on Man is teas than on the earth, aa the polar snows extend farther toward the equator; but it iaby no means in proportion to the lessened power if the solar rays. Several remarkable seas are now definable in the Southern Hemisphere, where, aa in the case of the southern hemisphere of the earth, water covers a much larger area than in the northern hemisphere. One of the southern seas of mars is very like the Baltic ia outline. Another sea near the equator is one thousand miles ’in length and about one h undred in breadth muchtJ’e » the 7 letter ‘Mum its back, stretching from east to west.