Mars and the Camera.

Progress, Volume I, Issue II, 1 September 1906, Page 305

Mars and the Camera.

Since the announcement last May that Mr. Lampland, at the Lowell Observatory, Arizona, America, had succeeded in obtaining photographs of Mars showing some of the much-discussed " canals," the opponents of the canal theory have frankly recognised their importance as .unimpeachable affirmative testimony. At the request of the editors of " Knowledge," Mr. Lampland has forwarded specimens of the actual photographs, and in the June issue of that periodical some of these are reproduced. Of these reproductions the markings believed to be artificial waterways constructed by the Martians are plainly discernible, and on the actual negatives no fewer than eleven " canals " can be traced. Apart from their value in the canal discussion, the photographs are a remarkable achievement, and were obtained after many failures, by a series of short exposures on a continuous firm similar to that of a cinematograph.

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