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...Fang (Nervous Norvus; Dot). One of those tough patter songs with a science-fiction twist: this cat was born on Mars and he's laying the other planets low. He wears "real nervous pegs with a crazy crease," and he's gonna "hit these chicks with a Martian jolt." Good for a spin...
...kind of dress rehearsal for this year's event. Astronomers have devised new tricks and instruments. Much of their equipment has improved materially in the last few years. Photographic films are faster and finer-grained. They may have improved enough to get a photographic record of the fleeting Martian details that visual observers believe they have seen. If plain telescopic photography does not succeed, one of the several electronic devices that amplify light may do the trick...
Even if the astronomers do not get better pictures of Mars, they will surely learn new facts about it. Such fast-improving devices as the infra-red spectrometer will tell new details about the composition of the Martian atmosphere...
Yellow Planet. As Mars drew close last week, even laymen noticed that it could hardly be called red. This time it looked definitely yellow. One reason for this, reported astronomers from Japan to Texas, was a gigantic, yellow dust cloud, presumably raised by unusual turbulence in the Martian atmosphere. It was first seen by Japanese astronomers in the middle of August. Later it spread until it obscured much of the planet's surface, making all observation difficult...
...fascinating detail. These intervals of good "seeing," however, do not last long enough to be photographed, and the human eye-brain combination is not designed for recording much information instantaneously. So Mars observers seldom agree about what they have seen on Mars. The Lumicon and similar devices may end Martian privacy. Even a single good picture may tell whether there is any life on Mars...