areographer n.

The local indistinctness and confusion that so often puzzle the areographer.

The scientists included, to name a few of them, John Nisbit, Canadian astronomer, Anido Castelar, Chilean archaeologist…and Paul Rhodes, South African areographer.

A whole series of photographs which not only confirmed the drawings of the great French areographer Antoniadi but showed a number of single and even double canals which were also observed visually.

His eye could already resolve details smaller than fifty kilometers across, so that he could have seen a Sicily or even a Long Island, had Earth’s areographers been whimsical enough to put on on the map of Mars.

About 1800 a German astronomer, Johann Hieronymus Schroeter (SHROI-ter, 1745–1816), who made observations of the Martian surface, invented the term ‘areography’ (air-ee-OG-ruh-fee) from Greek words meaning ‘Mars-writing,’ to mean the description of the surface of Mars. The first real areographer was a German astronomer named Wilhelm Beer (BAYR, 1797–1850).

‘Mars,’ Dairine said. The disk drive chirred briefly. ‘Coordinates?’ Dairine knew that areographers used some kind of latitude-longitude system for Mars, but she knew nothing else about it. ‘Default,’ she said, on a hunch.

‘You’re not coming with us.’ ‘Hey, hey! I’m an ace areographer. I’ll find Kapera’s parents.’ Nanoannie struck this attitude, ‘Yeah? And how about murderology? I bet somebody right here in your Facer Institute killed Kapera’s parents.’ I didn’t want to hear any more. ‘They aren’t dead!’ Cayce said, ‘Maybe they left Mars without you.’