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Mars has an atmosphere; therefore it must have weather. Starting with this thesis-as thin as the Martian atmosphere itself-Seymour L. Hess of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz, set out to chart Martian weather. He reports his findings in the current Sky and Telescope.
Even through a large telescope, Mars looks like a small reddish disc doing a slightly hysterical dance. But delicate instruments can measure with fair accuracy on its barren surface the temperature of spots as small as 400 miles wide. Since differences of temperature (which make an atmosphere circulate) are the...
Using the best data he could find, Hess drew a temperature map for Mars. It turned out to look much like a terrestrial temperature map. In its "winter" hemisphere, Mars was deathly cold (about 40° below zero Fahrenheit at Lat. 50) and showed no sudden changes of temperature. Near...
In June 1947, a private pilot named Kenneth Arnold told reporters a wonderful yarn. While flying alone over Washington's Mount Rainier, he said, he had spotted nine round, shiny, mysterious objects. flipping and flashing along in the sky "like saucers." Since then U.S. newspapers and magazines have credulously...
Shortly after, McLaughlin was moved to a post where he could get some salt air; he became commander of the Bristol. Still vowing that he had seen a saucer in his telescope, he sold the idea to the Sunday supplement This Week, which prepared a four-page EYEWITNESS REPORT stating...