Word: biesbroeck
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Different countries, different scenes. At the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., a badger-like Belgian, Professor George Van Biesbroeck, squatted in his dusky cavern, mapping what he could see, through Earth's shaking atmosphere, of the 1926 Martian geography. He disregarded the two little moons that circle Mars (the inner one twice daily) and concentrated on the dark-stained areas of its surface which remain fairly constant in their own cycle of changes and seem to indicate the existence of seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time...