Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definite proof of the Planet Mars being uninhabited is shown by recent astronomical investigation according to Loring B. Andrews, instructor in Astronomy who spoke at a public "Open Nights" lecture at the Observatory last night. He revealed that recent evidence shows the atmosphere of the planet too slight to sustain life...
...question, 'Is there life on Mars?' ", said Dr. Andrews, "has been definitely decided by recent observational evidence which shows the atmosphere of the planet contains but one quarter of one percent as much oxygen as does the earth's atmosphere at sea level. Human beings, such as inhabit the earth, would find life very difficult, far more extreme than the lack of oxygen at the top of high mountains...
...question of life on Mars has been open ever since the time that the Italian astronomer, Schiaparelil, first observed a network of very fine lines on the planet's surface. These he called 'canale' in the report of his discovery to the astronomical world. The word which means "channel" was mistranslated as "canal" in both the English and French versions of his report...
...thought of artificial construction on the surface of Mars at once caught the fancy of many astronomers of the period and Porcival Lowell '76, in particular began an intensive study of the planet. Spectroscopic comparisons of the planet and the Moon by Dr. Silpher at the Lowell Observatory gave what seemed to be decisive evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere...
...long-exposure plate Mt. Wilson Observatory's Edwin Powell Hubble lately found a streak of light which was subsequently identified by other telescope men as an asteroid, one of some 1,400 small planets between Mars and Jupiter. It was a remarkable asteroid in that its orbit was more steeply inclined (39°) to the general plane of planetary revolution than any other except one (43°). But it seemed odd for Dr. Hubble, of all astronomers, to be making such a discovery, for the realm in which he usually works is so distant that the asteroids by comparison...