To: BenLurkin
An incredible comparison: 1877 to 2016
Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli drew this and other detailed maps of Mars during the 1877 opposition

Mars, as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope this month as Mars and Earth approached opposition this week

3 posted on
05/21/2016 11:03:05 AM PDT by
COBOL2Java
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To: COBOL2Java
Schiaparelli did pretty good at recording the dark areas.
The lines though...his eyes must have been playing tricks on him.
5 posted on
05/21/2016 11:07:48 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
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To: COBOL2Java
#3 Mars looks like it has North America and South America continents.
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