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In any telescopic observation of the planets, the first 20 miles are the hardest; the earth's dirty, turbulent atmosphere spoils the view. But last week a balloon-borne, unmanned telescope named Stratoscope II soared above all such standard troubles and took an unobstructed peek at Mars.
Target for the night was Mars, riding ever higher in the sky as the night advanced. After a little guidance trouble, the soaring scope found the planet and focused its concentrated reddish light into a spectrometer that measured infra-red rays, recorded the readings on magnetic tape and transmitted them...
When carefully analyzed, Stratoscope's spectroscopic studies should yield new information on the atmosphere and climate of the red planet. Mars has no light of its own. The light that it sends to the earth is sunlight that passes down through the thin Martian atmosphere and is reflected out...
The next interplanetary shot will probably be aimed at Mars, whether or not the Russian spacecraft which was tossed toward Mars on Nov. 1, finally arrives. Since Mars has a nicely transparent atmosphere, the U.S. Mars shot, now scheduled for 1964, will try to take 20 fine-detail pictures during...
Silicon Life. When JPL's space denizens have learned to land softly on the moon, they can do the same on Mars, studying or even fighting off any kind of life that exists there. That life may be based on unfamiliar chemistry, perhaps using silicon in place of carbon...