Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Latest News of Mars. [ARTICLE]

Latest News of Mars.

Although the planet Mars was not favorably situated for observation during Its opposition in the early part of this year, yet some of its mysterious phenomena were again beheld? Stanley Williams, the English astronomer, reports that many of the “canals” were visible, and that several of them appeared “double.” The “Nilosyrtis,” the largest and most prominent canal on Mars, was curiously faint in March, “very irregular in both width and darkness, and perhaps actually interrupted In places.” On the night of March 15, Mr. Williams saw, south of the dark streak surrounding the northern snowcap, a bright spot which he thinks may have been caused by clouds.