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Another "observation" of Martian life needed no telescope. Dr. Hubertus Strughold, chief of the Air Force's Department of Space Medicine, wrote a book a few years ago about Mars as an environment for living organisms (The Green and Red Planet, TIME, Aug. 24, 1953). His general conclusion was that the Martian climate is not too tough for some sort of hardy life. He suggested that this be proved by setting up a "Mars chamber," where rugged terrestrial organisms could be subjected to Martian conditions...
Mars Chamber. Last week Dr. Strughold reported at Flagstaff that this experiment has been performed successfully by Dr. Roland B. Mitchell and Lieut. John A. Kooistra Jr. of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. They collected soil samples from the high slopes of Mt. McKinley, the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon, where the climate in some respects is almost as tough as on Mars. They put the samples in jars and replaced the oxygen-rich earthly air with dry nitrogen. They lowered the moisture content to below 1% and reduced the pressure to 1.2 Ibs. per square inch...
None of this proves, says Dr. Strughold, that Mars has intelligent inhabitants, or even that life of the lowest kind has established itself on Mars. What it does prove is that some life forms on the comparatively pleasant earth are tough enough to live for a while on Mars...
...body puts sharp limitations on how high he can go and how fast he can be accelerated to supersonic speeds. He has reached what Space Physiologist Hubertus Strughold aptly calls "the vertical frontier." To help conquer the frontier is the task of a young and bustling specialty: aviation medicine...
...Martian plant life (e.g., mosses and lichens that can manufacture their own oxygen) is entirely possible. From this distance, there is not" much more to be learned about the far-off planet that looks pale red to the naked eye. If rocket riders ever get to Mars, says Dr. Strughold, the first explorer to return will be able to report "whether he finds an exotic vista of living things, burgeoning luxuriously by processes unknown to us, or a simple prospect of humble lichens, reviving and declining with the seasons...