THE CANALS IN MARS.
Dr Arrhenius, the famous Swedish scientist and Nobel prize-winner, propounded at a meeting of the Stokholm Society ot Physic 9 receutly a new and curious theory concerning the so-called canals in Mara. He said
that, as a consequence of various charges, including the thickness of the planet's crust, several parallel cracks bad been formed, which had gradually been filled up with sand. This sand, Dr Arrhenius argued, contains various salts, which assume different colours, according to the amount of dampness permeating the soil of the planet at different seasun. The "melting snow" otten
referred to by writers on Mars is, Bays the doctor, merely evaporation .at the Martian Pole. During this evaporation the cracks assume a darker hue, but become light in colur again when the temporary dampness has passed away. His theory, Dr Arrhenius believes, completely explains the reason why the channels change colour. The seas in Mars, he adds, contain a large quantity of sand, and are not very deep. Finally, the lecturer 3tated that, so far as his experiments went, the temperature of the planet was too low to permit of the existence of plants or any other organisms.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10037, 6 May 1910, Page 4
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196THE CANALS IN MARS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10037, 6 May 1910, Page 4
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