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Hope that a future astronaut might some day find life on Mars faded deeper than ever into science fiction when Mariner 4 sent its remarkable snapshots across 135 million miles of space. The bleak, pocked surface of the red planet looked dead indeed. Because they saw no signs of erosion...
Not so, claim more optimistic scientists after a second look at the Mariner photos. The JPL men assumed that the surface of Mars is as old as the surface of the moon, say Physicists Edward Anders of the University of Chicago and James R. Arnold of the University of California...
In the same issue of Science, other researchers offer much the same conclusion. All of which suggests that other Martian craters, predating those that Mariner saw, formed and vanished eons ago. What happened to them? All the researchers agree that they must have been eroded away - perhaps by swirling dust...
Mystical Mechanisms. Optics still produce 40% of the company's revenues, but Perkin-Elmer has expanded vigorously into analytical instruments that serve the chemical industry in myriad ways. The company now derives more than half its sales from such mystical mechanisms as its $25,000 infrared spectrophotometer, a crucial...
Cate, 33, born in Paris of American parents, was Yale '55, served two years in the Army, came to TIME in 1960 after three years with the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times. He is a familiar figure around the space center in Houston, did most of his interviewing for this...