Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999jbaa..109..115b&link_type=abstract
Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.109, no.3, p.115-116
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
According to his compatriot Forest Ray Moulton, Edward Emerson Barnard at times saw small white spots dotted like stars about the apparent surface of Venus. Thinking they 'might be the lofty summits of snow-clad mountains, reaching above the level of the denser clouds,' he attempted to use them to determine the rotation period of the planet. Moulton, who cites no source for this story, tells us, 'he never found it possible to follow such spots long enough to throw any light' on the matter. Today the rotation of Venus is known, and the myth of a mountainous planet dispelled. But the phenomenon itself is beyond doubt; as Henry McEwen, the first Director of the Mercury and Venus Section, noted in 1950, 'points of light... have been seen by most of the 'classic' observers and several moderns, myself included.'
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