MESSAGE FROM MARS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 92, 18 April 1908, Page 2

MESSAGE FROM MARS.

WATER VAPOUR DISCOVERED ON THE PLANET. NEW YORK, Feb. 26. Professor Lowell, the chief astronomer at Flagstaff Observatory, Arizona, who is one of the principal authorities on the planet Mars,, reports to-day another discovery of the greatest importance. . Professor Lowell is one of the astronomers who believe that the Martian "canals" are not optical illusions, but artificial works, and his study of these canals from a temporary observatory in South America last year, strengthened the belief that animal

and other life may exist on the planetOne of the objections to the "canal" theory, has been the,apparent absence of water vapour from the atmosphere of Mars.

, Since returning to Flagstaff, Professor Lowell has been studying Mars, with a specially constructed spectroscope, and he now claims that he has succeeded in demonstrating the presence of water vapojir, though in small proportions. V

Professor Lowell received the Janssen medal from the French Astronomical Society in 1904 for his researches^ on Mars.

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