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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.
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...
The moon and Mars, Lyttleton calculates, are too small to have liquid cores, and this may be why neither of them has mountain ranges. But Venus is about the same size as the earth, is probably made of much the same material, and it may have a shrinking liquid core...
Never before in man's history has he stood nearer his celestial neighbors. Powerful radio telescopes collect emissions from the very lip of infinity. Inquisitive hardware, sent up from earth, skims past the moon, Venus, Mars, the sun. The space sciences, in their long climb from superstition, have developed...