Word: marse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zigzag in Space. While a trip to the moon is a "possibility" in the near future because the rocket can be radio-controlled from earth, a voyage to Mars. 1,600 times as far away, would be another matter. The time lag in sending and receiving radio signals would make...
Nailing Up Heads. Like most of the Roman ruling class, Caius Julius Caesar was a somebody at birth. He liked to trace the family tree right to Rome's legendary founder Romulus, and even claimed kinship with Mars and Venus.
During the brisk, busy week in Washington, the President greeted France's ex-President and Madame Vincent Auriol in his best French, spoke to the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, shook hands with 900 disabled veterans, breakfasted with 18 Republican women politicians. He also: EURJ Told Republicans...
Wilson and Earle Slipher predicted that the image intensifier would break the Mars deadlock. Last summer when Mars came close, they attached the tube, still imperfectly adjusted, to their comparatively small 24-in. telescope. Even though the "seeing" was extremely bad during the whole period of observation, they got pictures...
The pictures show no canals or other fine detail, but when the image intensifier was first attached to the telescope, Astronomer Wilson pointed it at Mars and threw the brightened image on the picture tube's face to look at it visually. "Suddenly," says Dr. Wilson, "there were canals...