While many astronomers regard the planet Mars as a “dying world,” others, notably the Abbe Moreux and Colonel du Ligondes, consider it as a young and growing planet. Moreux explains the doubling of the “canals” by an optical effect, and the other holds that Mars was formed after the earth and Jupiter. Owing to its distance from the sun and its light atmosphere, Mars ought to be an icy desert, but observation shows that it is not, and hence he concludes that the body of the planet is still warm. The “canals,” he thinks, are cracks produced by contractions of the crust. The white poles of Mars are formed not by snow, but hailstones. Mars, in short, is, according to him, like the earth when she was in the primary era.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1425, 22 June 1899, Page 31
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