Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-23
FLAMMARR|ON IS SURE. IF LIFE
 ON MARS
Noted French Astronomer Says He Detects Melting Snow and Large Bodies of Water -Regular Seasons.

PARIS. Aug. 22.-Camille Flammar- rion says there is life on Mars and produces evidence to prove 1t. The statement of the great French astrom- omer who has given so many years of his life to the study of the most interesting planet to scientists. has already created sensation in the scientific world.
 For centuries what is going on on Mars has been mystery the wise men of every civilized land have tried to solve. In the middle ages when SUD- erstition ruled the world the astrolo- gers and soothsayers turned their at tentions to the heavens in their igno- rant way and tried to discover if Mars was inhabited. With the in vention of the telescope scientists pur- sued the same study with more hope of results, and for the past ten years most every astronomer of note has tried to demonstrate what Flammar- rion says he can prove.
 The great Frenchman says the life on Mars is probably a very diff ferent kind of life from terrestrial life but he is sure that there is life there. He says that on these summer nights there is before the eyes of sci entists a living world above in which 1 the seasons show variations indicat- ng great climatic activity. In the first drawing of the teles- copic views made June IS, he finds that the South Pole is at the top and says snows are very extended there, whereas snow is not visible at the bottom.
 From a second view made August IA, the 5nows are clearly diminished. He deduces the fact that the south ern hemisphere of Mars is at present passing through the summer season and in the northern hemisphere it is winter. The northern solstice, he states will take place October 25. | Water resulting from the melting of the snow, he claims, can be plainly l seen.
 But more important than anything | he has to say concerning his observa-  life on the planet.
 His discovery will start anew inves- tigations in every observatory in the anyone up to date. Observers who are trying to solve the riddle of the universe can now proceed with their studies from ad- vanced ground and the world can look | for something more startling regard ! ing the great planet than it has ever heard of before or the most Optimis- l tic observers have ever dared to hope could be proven.
 Flammarrion gives out the following statement to the world:
 At the observatory Of JuvissI ob- tained two drawings of Mars in tel escopic views. The south pole is at the top, the north pole at the bottom. The first drawing was made on June IS. the second on August II. il the first the upper polar snows are very extended, whereas no trace of snow is visible at the bottom.
 Tn the second drawing the second snows are considerable diminished, but northern snows are clearly mani fest. The differences are not due to variations in the inclination of the axs of the planet toward the earth, for this variation between these dates is less than six degrees. They are due to the fact that the southern hem isDhere of Mars is at the present in summer and the northern hemisphere in winter. The northern solstice will take place on October 2S.
 Tt results that the southern snows have been melting for months every day, while, while on the north the snows are growing in extent. The melting is marked at the upper pole, not only by diminuation of the polar cap, but also by the larger shades of the surroundings, which represents water resulting from this melting Thus there Is before our eyes these summer nights living world in which the seasons show us variations indi- eating very intense climatological ac- tiyity.
 "It is difficult to witness manifesto tions of this activity without being convinced of the existence of a kind of life assuredly very different from terrestrial life, but the nature of which it would be of the greatest in teTest to ascertain"
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