Word: martian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When carefully analyzed, Stratoscope's spectroscopic studies should yield new information on the atmosphere and climate of the red planet. Mars has no light of its own. The light that it sends to the earth is sunlight that passes down through the thin Martian atmosphere and is reflected out again. Loss of certain infra-red wave lengths during these two passages will prove the presence of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other interesting, life-supporting constituents...
First quick studies of Stratoscope's data showed that water vapor and CO2 are indeed present, but scarce. Now the data have gone to the University of California for closer analysis, as scientists continue their search for any evidence of the possibility of Martian life...
...sized pamphlet published by London's oddball Gaberbocchus Press. It consists of a page with seven words, a drawing of the Garden of Eden, two more pages with seven more words, a drawing of a Rube Goldbergian battle scene, and a final few words. Intended "for use in Martian infant schools," as the title page puts it, Ban-the-Bomb Bertie's text reads, in toto: "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable." In case anyone misses the message, the pamphlet closes with a photo...
...observing the time it takes for Mars to complete one orbit around the sun and comparing that time with the earth's own time on its orbit. Since the distances of the planets from the sun are in proportion to their periods of revolution, the radius of the Martian orbit can thus be measured in terms of the basic "astronomical unit": the average distance of the earth from...
Systematically, Romains's extraterrestrial observer examines each of man's achievements and judges each a sad reminder of its better past. But inescapably, a question arises: How can this Martian be so filled with nostalgia for a world he never knew? It is then that the mask falls away-it is not a book of discovery, but a book of reminiscence. Romains, an old man (now 76), has written an old man's book, and in the end, he offers a warning drawn from the only lesson Men of Good Will taught: there...