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...using two satellite stations as intermediate refueling and supply bases. The first satellite station would revolve around the earth and form the starting point for the interplanetary voyaging. The second would be established in an orbit around Mars. Then specially designed "landing boats" would descend into the thin Martian atmosphere to explore the planet's surface...
...moon, for instance, are covered by a three-inch layer of dust tossed out of meteorite craters. Last year a cloud of yellow dust was seen for a few hours on Mars by Tsuneo Saheki. Struve thinks it was probably stirred up by a meteorite striking through the thin Martian atmosphere and shattering Martian rock...
Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...
Such temperature variations, Hess reasoned, ought to stir up the Martian atmosphere as they do the earth's. For proof that they actually do, he turned to observations of the faint white clouds that sometimes drift across the red surface of Mars. The clouds indicated that Mars, like the earth, has "prevailing westerlies" as well as winds circulating around areas of high or low pressure. He thinks that the lot spots are probably "heat lows" like those that often form in summer in the U.S. southwest...
...judge by Hess's analysis, Martian weather is pretty dull. If an earthling on Mars were able to breathe its atmosphere (containing little oxygen), he would see few clouds the year round. The wind might push him about a bit, but he would not have to worry about rain or snow. His worst problem would be the more extreme contrast between winter and summer. The Martian year (almost twice as long as the earthly year) allows Mars more time to heat up in summer, cool off in winter...