Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-17
Frost on Mars

K ago Prof. Lowell, uf the Lowell eryatory af Flagstaff. gave out .ement that through inc powerful scope in use at the observatory had observed the appearance of it within the antarctic Circle of the let Mars. Commenting on this ement Garrett P. Seryiss wrote an cle for She New York American ch Is Of LOth scientific and popular rest The Serglss article is as iws
 Ie news, toiephoned from the staar observatory. that Frost" has n 10 appear around the aBaretic ie Of the planet Mars Is bit Of N-terrestrial herreporting h may be as correct as some IS done at home.
 Mars it is now the latter half bat we on the earth would cali ss. the summer is fast breaking nd autumn is at hand. There Is a remarkable similarity between recession of the seasons on Mars Bn the earth that it seems per
 reasonable to assume. as the taff observers do. that the whit eposit, which thelr instruments led during the last few das s, Ing like a morning mist along uyiding line between day and
 on Mars. Is real hoar frost. a
 of the coming chill Of winter,
 indication of the beginning or eat South polar snow cap which,
 months later. will bury the
 Antartic Circle Of that, planet his assumption is correct. the
 sed inhabitants of Mars must le hurrying 10 gather their bar-
 in preparation for the long, dry r, when nearly all the water of
 outhern hemisphere Of their
 will be locked up. for more
 one Of our years, in the polar ds.
 the first time. that an occur
 of this kind has actually been
 sed on Mars although similar
 must have been enacted there
 old thousands Of generations.
 position of the bright. white
 that have been photographed
 as to accord with tae probable On of the first snows. since ie is a belt included between 62 55 degrees Of south latitude. would embrace the Polar circle planet.
 ,ar the center of that circle the stin remains perpetually above horizon. so that the deposit of
 probably begins in a ring about
 ntarctic region and gradually ad-
 toward the Pole as the sun ies.
 behavior Of the phenomenon
 regard 10 sunrise also accords the snpposition that it is really
 snow or frost which is seen, s the morning sun gets higher
 IL it gradually disappears, as if d away Thus all the appear
 are in favor of the hypothesis
 as been mentioned
 yet there are puzzling diff
 in the way which makes these
 8 observations of fascinating in
 We know that the force Of ..,ation in Mars is only about two ls Of that on the earth. and we in- that as consequence Mars cannot manently hold upon its surface h gases as those which constitute bulk Of the earth's atmosphere. he question thus rises. What is nature Of this frost. or this white. w-like deposit. on Mars? Does il amble our snow. or is it something a different composition? It has color. or the lack Of color, char stic of snow, and it initiates snow being dissipsted by the suns rags nd yet dynamic considerations us to think that it cannot be frog water vapor, because such vapor. ng 10 the speed Of vibration of it ecules, ought to fly off from that net and escape into space.
 ID the other hand. 1t is very difi- to guess what substance there Id be which would SO closely re Ible snow. The suggestion has been le that il is frozen carhonic a"ia. that hypothesis is hardly satiss ory. But whatever 1t may be, there be 10 doubt of the existence Of lething on Mars whlch behaves IT the manner of snow. and facts facts. however much they may iy he face of theories.
 these phenomena. which have n noticed continually since No iber 3. continue to be visible. and the Antarctic Circle of Mars IS n to become gradually covered white as the winter advances t ? be necessary to reconstruct pre- ing ideas about the relation be- en the force of gravity on a planet the existence of a permanent at sphere upon 1t: and then we shall e 10 explain, if We can. how a Ie world like Mars may be fur ned with air and water. or some stitute for air and water. suitable the needs or the beings dwelling n il
 erhaps the Martians. to show there 10 mystery in what seems SO mys- ous to us, would hold their sides laughter if they were told how we are, as our telescopes rease in power. to find that their net persists in going through so ny earthlike performances in spite it's very unearthlike dimensions.
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