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...bosomy princesses and Tarzan-like adventurers. H.G. Wells populated the planet with huge, insectlike creatures. NASA scientists have yet to find either maidens or monsters on the Red Planet, but their epoch-making explorations increasingly suggest that there may be more on Mars than rocks. Though the Viking 1 lander has yet to discover the organic compounds that would enable scientists to say with any confidence that there is life out there, it has sent back evidence that processes usually associated with life on earth also take place on Mars. Says Harold Klein, leader of the Viking biology team: "Mars...
...ideologically, the Free Liberals are closer to the Christian Democrats, but there have also been serious differences of opinion between the leaders of both parties, Schmidt and Hans-Dietrich Genscher (Foreign Affairs minister in the Bonn government). Further, the Free Liberals could strengthen their political influence as the state (lander) level if they joined with the Christian Democrats. In lander like Hesse and Rhine-Westphalia where the Free Liberals are in the minority, a coalition with the Christian Democrats would open the way for FDP administrative posts and increased political influence. Needless to say, Genscher has used this tempting possibility...
Earthquakes, floods and fugitive diseases are, at any rate, random evidence that the earth itself is mysteriously and sometimes wildly alive. That somehow added to the metaphysical fascination of watching the Americans' Viking lander scratch around in the rusty Martian soil to see if that world, too, had been visited by the secret force...
...eventful week, it had been so quiet at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that scientists could hear a pin drop. Then, 214 million miles away, a pin did drop-onto the reddish soil of Mars. It fell from Viking, freeing the mechanical arm that it had jammed and enabling the lander to begin its historic life-seeking experiments. Some 19 minutes later, as telemetry confirming that the arm was no longer jammed appeared on the console screens at JPL, scientists and engineers broke into cheers. Said Meteorologist Seymour Hess: "Happiness is a functioning instrument in a spacecraft...
Three days later, shortly after Martian sunrise, Viking reached out with its arm, scooped up a sample of Martian soil and dumped it into the craft's biological laboratory. Scientists first learned that the arm was working from a picture transmitted from the lander. The shot showed a footprint-like trench about 6½ in. long, 2½ in. wide and 2 in. deep that had been scooped out by Viking. Scientists were struck by the fact that the sides of the trench had not collapsed. Said Princeton University Geologist Robert Hargraves: "It's strange material. It looks...