Show MARTIAN the weather aner on our Is always rine fine the martian meteorology is less complicated alic plic ted t and more pleasant than that t 11 the alie earth says the north american rc EC view there the weather ireather is almost always fine especially during summer very seldom are there clouds even in in winter generally when we arc unable to distinguish through the telescope e I 1 rc the details of the geographical configurations upon the planet the fault is in our own atmosphere and not in in that of mars it is veu very rarely the case that when our atmospheric conditions are good we are unable to see these details during the last period of ob ser serration aaion of mars liars in 1894 1 to speak for myself encountered only 15 days from october 10 to 25 when the surface of the planet was veiled toiled by its own atmosphere clouds are excessively rare on the surface of A mars lars and perhaps exist at all only ns as fogs or light cirrus they are not clouds of rain or storm these veils are very infrequent there while they are perpetual upon the earth probably there is not a single day iu in the year ear when the entire surface of the th earth is uncovered red so sn that it could be satisfactorily observed from space the two planets have two meteor meteorological logical systems that are absolutely antithetical furthermore in the rarefied atmosphere of mars there can be no powers powerful ful winds like the trade winds and the predominant atmospheric currents av ach rule terrestrial climates occasionally casio nally however observers have noted long streaks of snow which appear to have been produced by currents in a tranquil atmosphere for instance observed red such streaks trainees in november and dece decem m ber 1881 1 around the northern pole an and d extending a considerable distance from froin it but such thin things s are exceptions che normal conditi condition oil of mars is fine a ather |