Word: marse
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Man's age-old dream of extraterrestrial life was stimulated earlier this summer by preliminary interpretations of data sent back from Mars by the twin Mariner probes. Hurriedly examining the readings from his infrared spectrometer on board Mariner 7, Chemist George C. Pimental had dramatically announced that the Martian...
Dry-Ice Clouds. Other scientists also had some second thoughts about their Mars findings. Originally, the temperature of the southern polar cap was reported as -180°F., or roughly the frost point of carbon dioxide under Martian atmospheric pressure. Now, the scientists say that the temperature is probably about...
Although spaceflights have detected no life on the moon or Mars, they have nonetheless increased speculation both theological and secular-about whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. Some of the religious pondering has been a serious effort to prepare for that possibility (TIME, Jan. 24), but much of...
Blue Fire. Other stories examine what might happen when it is man's turn to explore other worlds, possibly to encounter life forms both inferior and superior to his own. One chilling short novel published in 1954, Lester del Rey's For I Am a Jealous People, told...
One of America's Apollo 11 heroes has doffed his space suit for the last time. Appearing on TV, Mike Collins agreed with Neil Armstrong that Mars is a possibility by 1981, then announced that he would make no more journeys into space. At 38, said Collins, he finds...