Word: marse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mars floats seminaked, wrapped in its thin blue atmosphere as if in a transparent negligee. Yellow clouds, perhaps of dust, drift across it slowly. The white polar icecaps wax and wane with the swing of the Martian seasons, and its surface changes color, as if with seasonal vegetation.
Brief Visions. Besides these features, which have been photographed, the surface of Mars has a wealth of detail that has never been captured on a photographic plate. Motions of the earth's atmosphere make the disk jiggle and shimmer, and photographs, long exposed, show nothing but vague mottling. But...
On many such half-seen visions of Mars is built the theory of its "canals," presumably built by intelligent beings. Skillful and honorable observers have seen a network of fine, straight lines crisscrossing the planet. Others, just as competent, have seen nothing of the sort, and the canal system drawn...
Thousands of Pictures. Little new information about Mars has been collected since its last close approach in 1939. Telescopes have not changed very much since then, but there are more of them, and their accessories have improved considerably. Photographic emulsions are faster, permitting pictures to be taken with shorter exposures...
There is no evidence so far that the earth has a second satellite, but Mars has two satellites, Jupiter has twelve satellites, and Saturn probably has millions of them in its rings. The earth may have picked up a few small ones. The fact that they have not been discovered...