Popular science monthly . stance which has not beenmade in any earthly laboratory or tosome substance, which has never beenstudied in layers thick enough to bringout the characteristic appearance. Itis also possible, though hardly probable,that the belt is due to a fine mist or dustwhich absorbs violet light; but it seemsunlikely that such a mist would appeardark for the simple reason that it wouldreflect equally as much light as it ab-sorbed. As a venture we might attri-bute the belt to chlorine gas, whichabsorbs violet and ultra-\iolct light pow-erfully and is transparent to yellow
Popular science monthly . stance which has not beenmade in any earthly laboratory or tosome substance, which has never beenstudied in layers thick enough to bringout the characteristic appearance. Itis also possible, though hardly probable,that the belt is due to a fine mist or dustwhich absorbs violet light; but it seemsunlikely that such a mist would appeardark for the simple reason that it wouldreflect equally as much light as it ab-sorbed. As a venture we might attri-bute the belt to chlorine gas, whichabsorbs violet and ultra-\iolct light pow-erfully and is transparent to yellow we recall the enormous quantityof chlorine locked up in the salt of theocean it is perhaps possible that laigequantities may exist free in the atmos-phere of young planets like Jupiter andSaturn. It seems highly probable that extreme-ly valuable results may be obtained ifthese methods are applied to the planetMars. Unfortunately, at this time Marsis too far away, and the photographswhich I made show nothing of Infra-red Yellow Violet Ultra violet Photographs of Jupiter made by Professor Wood with different rays 94 Popular Science Monthly
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