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Speculation that life exists on Mars has decreased this week even though the Viking spacecraft that landed on the planet more than two weeks ago relayed data back to Earth indicating Martian soil samples were emitting large quantities of oxygen...
Elso S. Barghoorn, Fisher Professor of Natural History and a member of the exobiology panel of the American Academy of Science's Space Sciences Board that was established in 1958 to advise NASA, said yesterday, it is "certainly an inorganic reaction" which is causing the release of oxygen...
...oxygen could not have been produced by photosynthesis which can only occur in the presence of light because light was absent from the experiment which detected the oxygen, Barghoorn said. He added that water was present when the oxygen was produced...
...Planet. The soil seemed to consist of a fine-grained reddish material interspersed with small blue-black or blue-green patches. Many of the rocks were also coated with a reddish stain, strongly suggesting the presence of iron that had rusted in the presence of atmospheric or waterbound oxygen. Other rocks, blue-green and opalescent, reminded some scientists of copper ore. After correcting the color values on the photograph, scientists decided that the sky, which looked blue in the original print, was really of a pinkish hue. All in all, the view, far from being alien and forbidding, seemed almost...
...sweaty exploitation film, Histoire d'Eau, showing that even the French can occasionally find sex of less compelling interest than water. Players briefly fled the British Open when brushfires broke out at the Royal Birkdale Golf Course. In Switzerland, thousands of fish were dying, officials said, because of oxygen depletion in their normal swimming grounds. Hordes of European citizens knew what the fish were going through: not only had the temperature got out of hand, but some British officials were worried about the increase of ozone levels in the air over London and other cities...