Mars as photographed by American astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) in 1909. Hale founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, USA. The instrument he used to capture Mars was the 60-inch () reflecting telescope.

---

Size: 2953px × 2966px
Location:
Photo credit: © DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -, 1900s, 1909, 20th, astronomical, astronomy, background, ball, black, century, dark, earth, ellery, features, george, globe, hale, mars, martian, monochrome, observation, photographed, planet, planetary, reflecting, solar, space, sphere, spherical, system, telescope, white