Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — Is Mars Inhabited ? [ARTICLE]

Is Mars Inhabited ?

There is no other plauet of the solar tern, says a scientific Aiaper, which offers m close ap analogy to tbs earth as Mars. Tliw telescofie reveals to us the figures of bran tracts of land and expanses of sea upon fire surf;tee. The durations of his day and night almost coincide with our own. His exterior experiences tbe alternating changes of the seasons. Hia j»%tHa..ip« iHnimitated l»y two sateJlitieawlj#hjfres€ut all the phenomena of oiifthvnmOT, and more frequently, owing to their greater velocity. An atmosphere prohahip smmmmtdm this planet; in fact, the existenee of al is indisKible to his other femUira. Hence the ence that Mars is a EaKtahleglolieanr pears a very ohviouamd jfcir conclusion/ and it would l»o ipdfihsi stout to.! imagine' that this planet,-pn»vSed Hppareutly with all the reqni«t<siafag] faflitie lo render life a necessary and desirable fealures of to the lawa efanuritation, is otherwise serving no useffflefd, as the abode and sustenance of animate creatures. It is &r Stx3EBBS&£ his surface is teemiug with living beings.