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The old farmer reflected a curious detachment in the Dominican Republic four months after the abortive revolution. To the people of the country's farms and villages, Santo Domingo might as well be on Mars. What concerned them most was the sorry shape of the sugar, cocoa and coffee...
When the full set of Martian pictures taken by the spaceship Mariner IV was released last week, Mariner's earth-bound master, Physicist William H. Pickering, had the White House itself as his gallery. President Johnson was on hand to present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists...
- Mars is more moonlike than Earthlike. The pictures showed 70 clearly distinguishable craters ranging in diameter from three miles to 75 miles; a few appeared to be rimmed with frost. If the Mariner sampling is representative, Mars may have at least 10,000 craters of the size shown in the...
Mars may not look much like Earth; the pictures are, in fact, testimony to the uniqueness of Earth in the solar system. But Mars could still hold some of the secrets of Earth's evolution. "If the Martian surface is truly in its primitive form," said Dr. Leighton, "that...
In a week marked by the spectacular results of man's first photo reconnaissance of Mars, the ambitions of the scientists and engineers at the San Francisco meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics seemed modest indeed. Topic "A" was the civilization of near-space-the techniques...