Mars

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The Photographic Story of Mars, 1962

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E.C. Slipher using the Mars Camera at the Lamont-Hussey Observatory in South Africa

There are hundreds of drawings, observation notes, and images of Mars in E.C. Slipher's papers, dating from 1907 to 1958.

These pages come mosty from the observation logbooks in the Lowell Observatory Archives.

The best images are featured in his book The Photographic Story of Mars (1962).

Drawings and Observation Notes

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Drawings of Mars, 1907

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Drawings of Mars, 1907

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Drawings of Mars, 1907

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Drawings of Mars, 1916

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Drawings of Mars, 1917

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Drawings of Mars, 1918

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Drawings of Mars, 1918

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Drawings of Mars, 1922

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Drawings of Mars, 1924

Photographs

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Photograph of Mars, 1907

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Photographs of Mars from 1907 to 1939

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Mars's characteristic blue clearing near oppositions from 1926 to 1958

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Photograph of Mars, 1939

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One of the first color photographs of Mars, 1939