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...creatures-which include walking, talking flowers, animated eyes, and glass-feathered birds-are part of a Harvard Information Center window exhibit of martian art as interpreted by Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Astronomy...
...freak comics, HEE HEE's artwork is uneven and lacks even a minimal thematic continuity. From titles like "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom of the Toilet Bowl" and "The Man Who Bites," the comic sounded like an instant winner, but both stories are incomprehensible jumbles of Martian deserts and bathrooms. Others include a giant mouse that chases both Americans and the Viet Cong out of Vietnam and a scientist who tries to change the direction of Western culture by involving everyone in a game he calls "Life." The best story of this unexceptional collection is titled 'Forbidden...
...Martian Microbe. Though the effort to reduce the likelihood of such failures could delay next October's flight of Apollo 14, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine thinks that the moon program can be kept on schedule. Indeed, the space agency got some rare encouragement to press ahead with Apollo from an often critical scientific community. Reporting puzzling age differences in lunar dust gathered at the Ocean of Storms and at the Sea of Tranquillity, Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg made a strong plea at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union for continued manned lunar exploration. "The moon," he told...
Darkening Clouds. Could such a rare substance on earth be produced in quantity on Mars? Quite probably, say Plummer and Carson. The thin Martian atmosphere consists largely of carbon dioxide; it also contains a trace of carbon monoxide, which may be vented from Martian volcanoes. Under intense ultraviolet radiation from the sun, the two gases could combine into carbon-suboxide vapor. Indeed, the two scientists were able to simulate that very reaction in the laboratory. Their experiment also demonstrated that when the temperature is high enough, the vapor could solidify into a fine granular material, turn yellow and precipitate onto...
...Plummer and Carson can only theorize about their strange Martian snow. But they hope that its presence may be confirmed in 1975 when NASA's Project Viking space probe is scheduled to make the first unmanned landing on the red planet, analyze its surroundings and radio its findings back to earth...