Word: marse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Telltale Band. Most important was proof that organic (carbon-hydrogen) compounds probably exist on Mars. Dr. William Sinton of the Smithsonian Institution started with the fact that compounds containing carbon, when joined to hydrogen, absorb infra-red radiation with a wave length of 3.46 microns. His first step was to...
Then Dr. Sinton hitched a supersensitive infra-red detector to Harvard's 61-in. telescope and looked for the same absorption band in sunlight reflected from Mars. Many observations were necessary because of the feebleness of Martian light, but at last the band appeared. Apparently, something on Mars absorbs...
Another "observation" of Martian life needed no telescope. Dr. Hubertus Strughold, chief of the Air Force's Department of Space Medicine, wrote a book a few years ago about Mars as an environment for living organisms (The Green and Red Planet, TIME, Aug. 24, 1953). His general conclusion was...
Mars Chamber. Last week Dr. Strughold reported at Flagstaff that this experiment has been performed successfully by Dr. Roland B. Mitchell and Lieut. John A. Kooistra Jr. of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. They collected soil samples from the high slopes of Mt. McKinley, the Painted Desert and...
None of this proves, says Dr. Strughold, that Mars has intelligent inhabitants, or even that life of the lowest kind has established itself on Mars. What it does prove is that some life forms on the comparatively pleasant earth are tough enough to live for a while on Mars.