Word: marse
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Such larger bodies as Mars and Venus, both powerful gravitational whirlpools, should be approached with caution. But Mars and Venus both have atmospheres, which the space men plan to use as frictional buffers. Their ships would circle in the atmospheric fringes until they were moving slowly enough to land. An...
Venus has an atmosphere that is mostly carbon dioxide and is always blanketed in brilliant white clouds. Most astronomers think its hidden surface is too hot to support the "carbon-cycle" life that exists on the earth. Mars is the best bet, but it is not too promising. U.S. Astronomer...
Williams has always wanted to coach. Born in Mars, a small town close to Pittsburgh, he attended the University of Pittsburgh, from which he was graduated in 1931. Short and wiry, he played wingback--a left-handed one, too--for Pitt, travelling to the Rose Bowl in 1930. (Southern Cal...
Some 100 meters off the Isle of Capri one day last week, a stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) Italian Air Force lieutenant named Raimondo Bucher donned a man-from-Mars outfit: rubber frog feet, web-fingered gloves, heavy goggles, and a partial face mask with rubber-padded steel...
The Agassiz telescope will still not be the world's largest; the Dutch are erecting a 75-foot one and the English a 250 footer. The latter will be used at lower frequencies, however, and might transmit pulse to mars.