Word: marse
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Future venturers to Mars and Venus will encounter great survival difficulties, including a temperature on Venus "well over the boiling point of water." Liller noted that, although certain parts of Mars sometimes reach a balmy 85 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, the prospective explorers would have a rough time surviving...
He went on to cite advances made in his own field of spectrophotometry and showed slides of the spectrum of light from Mars, which seem to indicate there is no oxygen on that planet. Mars' famed polar ice caps, he noted, are probably no more than frost "a few millimeters...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). In "The Desert World," Robert Neathery, director of Philadelphia's Franklin Museum, discusses life on Mars.
The episode, part of the Men into Space series, had been in the can since March, and no one at the network real ized how hilariously untimely it was. A team of Russian spacemen and a team of American spacemen, all moon-based, were doing their best to make the...
When the race finally got under way, the American ship took a commanding lead, while an explosion wrecked the Red rocket-leaving the Russian crew alive in the capsule. Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan) knew what to do: Mars would have to wait for another try. Abandoning his perfect...