 The figure of Mars is that of an oblate spheroid whose equatorial diameter is to the polar one as 1355 to 1272, or as 16 to 15 nearly. The equatorial diameter of Mars reduced to the mean distance of tho earth from the sun is 9" 8'". And that planet has...  The Observatory - Page 3441925Full view - About this book
 | William Enfield - 1811 - 476 pages
...diameter of Mars, reduced to the mean distance of the earth from the sun is 9" 8"'. And that planet has a considerable, but moderate atmosphere, so that...enjoy a situation, in many respects, similar to ours. PHIL. TRANS. Vol. LXXIV. Part a. CHAP. V. Of the MOON. SECT. I. — Of the VARIATIONS in the APPEARANCE... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pages
...Mars, reduced to the mean distance of the «'arth from the sun, is 9" s"' — And the planet has u considerable, but moderate atmosphere, so that its...probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to *>ur&," — Mars always appears with a ruddy troubled light; owing, it is supposed, to the nature of... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...diameter is to the polar one as 1355 to 1272, or as 16 to 15 nearly. (5) This planet has a considerable atmosphere, so that its inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours. The disk of Mars changes its form, and becomes sensibly oval according to the relative position of the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 236 pages
...equatorial diameter of Mars, reduced to the mean distance of the earth from the sun, 9" 8"'. And that planet has a considerable, but moderate atmosphere, so that...enjoy a situation, in many respects, similar to ours. OF VESTA <? • 231. Diameter 1800 miles. Distance from the sun - 224,145,000. Sidereal revolution... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1881 - 806 pages
...diameter of Mars reduced to the mean distance of tho earth from the sun is 9" 8'". And that planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere, so that...enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours. [Dated] Datchet, Dec. 1, 1783. 1764 74 437 Account of some observations tending to investigate the... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden, Charles Sheldon Hastings - 1881 - 132 pages
...diameter of Mars reduced to the mean distance of tho earth from the sun is 9" 8'". And that planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere, so that...enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours. [Dated] Datchet, Dec. 1, 1783. 1784 74 437 Account of some observations tending to investigate the... | |
 | James Sime - 1900 - 288 pages
...the red colour of Mars manifestly belong to the surface of the planet, we may accept Herschel's idea "that its inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours." It has been shown in our own day that the vapour of water, and with that we may associate clouds, is... | |
 | 1909 - 1064 pages
...J This, too, was admitted by Herachel (ibid.). § Herechel concluded from his observations of Mara that " its inhabitants " probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours" (ibid.). || Tyndall, Heat a Mode of Motion, loth ed., 1894, p. 418. •j This was shown by Galileo... | |
 | 1924 - 422 pages
...and the Earth is perhaps by far the greatest in the Solar System " §. " The planet," he concluded, " has a considerable but moderate atmosphere, so that...enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours " ||. Hsrschsl's study of M1rs was but an incident in his wider investigation of the construction of... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 pages
...and the Earth is perhaps by far the greatest in the Solar System '. ' The planet ', he concluded, ' has a considerable but moderate atmosphere, so that...enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.' Herschel's study of Mars was but an incident in his wider investigations of the construction of the... | |
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