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Mars has an atmosphere; therefore it must have weather. Starting with this thesis-as thin as the Martian atmosphere itself-Seymour L. Hess of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz, set out to chart Martian weather. He reports his findings in the current Sky and Telescope...
...winter" hemisphere, Mars was deathly cold (about 40° below zero Fahrenheit at Lat. 50) and showed no sudden changes of temperature. Near the equator the temperature on Hess's map averaged 50° F. and in the sunny "summer" hemisphere there were two hot spots where Martian thermometers, if any, stood...
Within the first ten minutes, police received 1000 calls from panicky citizens. At suburban Dorval, a dozen men actually marched up, hands dutifully clasped behind their necks, ready to surrender. A good many Montrealers, it seemed, had never heard of Orson Welles or his "Martian" radio broadcast...
Saeki reported his observation to top astronomers in Tokyo, who hold him in high regard. It was no ordinary Martian cloud, he said, but must be the product of a "terrific explosion." He added that he was not certain that the explosion could be of volcanic origin...
Since Mars revolves only a little more slowly than the earth does (its day is about 24½ hours long), a specific spot on its surface cannot be observed on the same night in both Japan and the U.S. By the time night comes in one earthly hemisphere, the Martian region visible from the other earthly hemisphere has turned away. So U.S. astronomers could not check up on Saeki immediately...