. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. SO UTHERN CA LIFORNIA A CA OEM Y OF SCIENCES 7 Is Mars an Inhabited World? By Wm. H. Knight. At the last "favorable" opposition of Mars, which oc- curred in the months of June and July 1907, that planet ap- proached within 38,000,000 miles or the earth, and shone the most resplendent object in the nocturnal heavens. It was at. Reproduction by permission of a fine drawing from a photograph of the planet Mars, taken at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., during the "favorabl
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. SO UTHERN CA LIFORNIA A CA OEM Y OF SCIENCES 7 Is Mars an Inhabited World? By Wm. H. Knight. At the last "favorable" opposition of Mars, which oc- curred in the months of June and July 1907, that planet ap- proached within 38,000,000 miles or the earth, and shone the most resplendent object in the nocturnal heavens. It was at. Reproduction by permission of a fine drawing from a photograph of the planet Mars, taken at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., during the "favorable opposition" of 1907, under the direction of Dr. Percival Lowell. a similar opposition in August, 1877, that Asaph Hall discov- ered the two minute satellites of Mars, and Schiaparelli first discerned the so-called canals on its surface. But even the existence of these lines was doubted by less sharp-sighted as- tronomers till, in the favorable opposition of 1892. more power- ful instruments confirmed Schiaparelli's observations. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
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