Word: andes
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Japan, where he lived for ten years. In 1894 he established the Lowell Observatory, of which he is the head, at Flagstaff, Arizona. In May, 1900, he undertook an expedition to Tripoli to observe an eclipse of the sun, and a few years later sent a party to the Andes to photograph the planet Mars. It is in connection with this expedition that Professor Lowell is best known. He has made many discoveries about Mars, and was awarded the Janssen Medal of the French Astronomical Society for research work concerning that planet in 1907. He has been a nonresident professor...