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Those astronomers who specialize in planetary lore are enjoying a treat since Mars is now at its closest point to the earth. The actual date of nearest approach is Aug. 23. At this time the planet is only 35 million miles away as against a possible distance of about 63...
As usual the flood of newspaper buncombe about Mars and its inhabitants appears. The actual knowledge of the planet is considerable, as astronomical knowledge goes, but the amount of conjecture, most of it baseless, is 10,000 times greater.
Mars is the planet whose orbit lies just outside that of the earth. Its mass is about one-ninth that of the earth. Its atmosphere has probably less than one-seventh the density of that of the earth. Because of its smaller mass, its gravity is much less and objects...
And then there are the canals. The presence of the major canals are fairly well established by a number of observations. The late Prof. Percival Lowell at his observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., claimed the discovery of as many as 585 canals. Some of these are doubted as optical illusions. These...
Those who doubt the existence of life on Mars are skeptical of the existence of the canals which Prof. Lowell so carefully mapped, an'd they point out that the light atmosphere, the extremes of heat and cold, the comparative absence of water (even if the polar caps consist...