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Early Mars observers had a hard time. Photography was useless. Surface details had to be glimpsed by eye and sketched with a pencil in near darkness. These vintage globes - reading from left to right - show their progress (if that’s the word) in divining Mars’ features.
2nd from left is an 1884 globe based on drawings of the famous observers Schiaparelli and Flammarion. They got the pattern of dark and light areas more or less right. They thought that the dark areas were seas. Unfortunately they joined up the dark patches - our eyes tend to do that. More unfortunately, they named their broad links ‘canali’ – Italian for channels which soon got misinterpreted as ‘canals’.
Canals stuck! The centre globe of 1898 from observations of Eugene Antoniadi has far more ‘canals’ and they are narrower.
Then along came Percival Lowell. Rich Bostonian - he built an observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona specially for Mars observing. At right is a 1913 globe showing his observations. He webbed Mars everywhere with fine lines with oases where they crossed! He published widely and the Mars Myth was firmly established. Intelligent beings lived there. Mars was dying. Martians built planet wide canals to carry scarce water from the polar ice caps. H.G. Wells wrote 'War of the Worlds'. It became the 1938 CBS radio broadcast that panicked a slice of the US.
There are no canals, no linear features.
It’s easy to laugh. One clear evening (several decades ago) I drove up the hill to Lowell’s observatory just to see the outside. By pure chance I met a very kind and helpful postdoc who let me observe through Lowell’s massive 24-inch Clark telescope – cutting edge tech when built. Mars was a fuzzy expanding and contracting orange ball. Every so often for just a split second the atmosphere steadied and beautiful detail shone out on the Martian disk but it was gone too fast to study let alone remember.
That’s how it was – early visual observers had everything against them. Admire them for their perseverance. Remember - us really smart people (some like to think) of the 21st Century do not even know what 95% of the Universe is made of!
The globes are in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge.
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The native American tribes in the USA have named the full moons. February's is the Snow Moon. Here it is rising over the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory as seen from Amado, Arizona, USA. www.sao.arizona.edu/FLWO/whipple.html
In the wide view the 6.5 meter telescope is on the summit and the lesser telescopes are to the right of the moon. The narrow view shows the group of smaller telescopes, antennas, and buildings which are down off the summit.
I used a preset film simulation in my X-T3, the Fred Herzog Kodachrome V1 simulation by Mark G Adams modified a bit in Fuji RAW Studio.
Remote area south of West Union and north of the Whipple State Nature Preserve. An exciting day for weather, hiking and spring wildflowers. And a slip on a steep hillside and a face plant.
www.sao.arizona.edu/FLWO/whipple.html
The Summit at 2616m (8585ft):
The 6.5-meter MMT (256-inch), a joint facility operated with the University of Arizona, for solar system, galactic and extragalactic astronomy.
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The saguaro is a tree-like cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea that can grow to be over 12 meters tall. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and the Whipple Mountains and Imperial County areas of California. The saguaro blossom is the state wildflower of Arizona.
Whipple's penstemons, Penstemon whippleanus, were growing beside a creek at 10,000 feet in the Ruby Mountains. They are usually found in moist areas high in the mountains of CO, AZ, NM, AZ, WY, ID, MT. They are purple in the Ruby, San Juan and Abajo Mountains, but on Grand Mesa in Colorado they are frequently white or cream with light purple highlights.
Other common names are Whipple's beardtongue or dusky beardtongue. This plant grows 1 - 2 feet tall, with flowers clustered at the top--for a view of a flower stalk:
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All 243 species of Penstemon are native and endemic to North America.
The native American tribes in the USA have named the full moons. February's is the Snow Moon. Here it is rising over the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory as seen from Amado, Arizona, USA. www.sao.arizona.edu/FLWO/whipple.html
In the wide view the 6.5 meter telescope is on the summit and the lesser telescopes are to the right of the moon. The narrow view shows the group of smaller telescopes, antennas, and buildings which are down off the summit.
I used a preset film simulation in my X-T3, the Fred Herzog Kodachrome V1 simulation by Mark G Adams modified a bit in Fuji RAW Studio.
Plenty of Buttercups on the eastern hillside of the hiking trail at Whipple Nature Preserve in the Appalachian Plateau of Adams County, Ohio.
Created for Digitalmania Influenced by Lynn Whipple
Flowers by Lynn Whipple, Face by Anne Bagby
Background by Robert Kushner
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This ground-hugging cactus is common in pinyon juniper and pine forests in Arizona. I took this shot near Show Low, AZ.
Also known as the "Triple Whipple Bridge" due to its unique Whipple design and it is reportedly the only example of this truss type left in the world. Built in 1878 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company which was based in Canton OH. This bridge spans 298 feet and is supported by stone abutments. Originally it carried Indiana State Hwy 56 across Laughery Creek. In the late 1950's the "new" bridge was constructed and spans the creek a couple of hundred feet downstream and a new section of Hwy 56 was constructed as well thus bypassing the little town of Buffalo (or French depending on who you are talking to). However, this bridge remained in service in until 1970. After that it fell into poor condition. Fortunately, due to its historic significance federal funds combined with Ohio County and Dearborn County funds were made available and the structure and roadway were restored in 2009, but it is limited to pedestrian traffic.
It is notable that a covered bridge was originally at this site and was supported on the same abutments as this bridge. However, the covered bridge failed and collapsed in the creek after only nine years.
The "Triple Whipple Bridge" is just adjacent to the Speakman House also restored in the past few years.
Finally, on a side note, having grown up in this area I rode and drove across this bridge many times.
At 8,553-foot summit: one building of Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, a unit of Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is a historic metal truss bridge crossing the Cacapon River in Capon Lake, West Virginia. Originally constructed in 1874 it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Capon Lake is an unincorporated community along the Cacapon River in Hampshire County West Virginia.
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Abbot Richard Wallingford of St. Albans spent so much time building a giant astronomical clock that he was admonished by King Edward III for neglecting the buildings of his monastery. Constructed in the 1330s and completed after Richard’s death, the complex clock was the high tech of the age. It was presumably lost in the 1540s dissolution of the abbey.
But all was not lost for the Oxford Bodleian Library has Richard's notes on the construction.
This image is of a faithful ¼-scale copy made by Don Unwin and housed in the Whipple History of Science Museum, Cambridge.
The device is in two modules, a clock with striking mechanism linked to a separate astronomical gearing section.
I would like to show more of this fascinating device but – in the current mania of many museums – the lighting was depressingly dim for decent photography or even proper viewing.
This 520 acre preserve is known for it's spring and summer wildflowers, sinkholes and 10' to 30' dolomite cliffs. This rock slid down the hill to settle just below the 2.2 mile loop trail.
These Sarcoscypha Coccinea are edible. They have a woody flavor and are good for stews but can be eaten raw...these were safe. I only eat mushrooms from our grocery.
Opened for traffic in 1877, this bridge replaced an earlier ferry that traversed the Des Moines River here. It is a rare example of a multi span Whipple Truss bridge, of which only 7 survive today. It closed in 1960 and was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Whipple's fishhook barrel cactus features vivid flowers above a dense array of spines, the longest of which are curved like fish hooks.
Wifey's keen eagle eye spotted this arch up the mountain side during a day trip alongside the Colorado River on the California side.
Best day hiking was on the Twinleaf Trail at Whipple Nature Preserve in rural Adams County, Ohio. The boss and I agreed that we probably saw the most prolific growths of wildflowers that we ever encountered. On the east side of this Appalachian hill about 75 miles up the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
In the desert southwest the cacti are regularly visited by a group of bees in the genus Diadasia. They are not limited to cacti, but they are very common in prickly pears, Whipple's fishhook cactus, and claret cup cactus. They only intend to collect pollen, but as you can see, they really stir things around, so they are efficient pollinators.
Doesn't she have beautiful eyes?
Located deep in the woods on the eastern hilly terrain of the Appalachian Plateau in rural Adams County, Ohio. Buttercups, May Apples and Dutchman's Breeches beside the only trail in the 540 acre preserve in Southern Ohio.
Now apart of a pedestrian trail, this Whipple truss bridge was built in 1887 by the Columbia Bridge works. For more information on historic truss bridges please visit www.historicbridges.org
Residence, 1892.
NOTE: A demolition permit was issued for the property in January 2026. The property was sold for $599,000 in December 2025.
One of at least two octagonal architected stores originally owned by Justus Collins who owned the Whipple Mine property. Miners bought pretty much everything in the company store and their pay checks were passed to the store and the miners bought against their earnings. If you didn't grow up in the Appalachia Area and have never been in a company store, you likely don't get it. Was fascinating to learn about the White Oak mining area. Given they had Polish folks in the area, wonder if any relatives worked there.
The Whipple Feeley Putnam County Veterans Memorial Chapel was recreated from the 1832 Red Mills Baptist Church in Mahopac which was dismantled in 1999 and kept in storage until 2006. The chapel was built under the direction of Peter Allegretta and George Whipple III. The steeple, which did not survive the years in storage, needed to be entirely rebuilt. Area professional carpenters donated thousands of hours volunteering on Saturdays for nearly a year.
The chapel is named in honor of deceased Putnam County veterans Capt. George Carroll Whipple, Jr. and Sgt. Robert Stanton Feeley. It is gifted in spirit to all of the Putnam County Veterans.
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