SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1956
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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SOUTH AFRICA BOUND:
'U' Telesco
By BOB BALL
Some of the centuries-old enig-
mas of the planet Mars may be
solved this summer as Earth and
Mars approached their closest
meeting of the mid-century.
Partcipating in a six-month
survey of the planet's face will be
the National Geographic Society
and the Lowell Observatory of
Flagstaff, Arizona. They have an-
nounced that they will use the
University's 27-inch refracting
telescope, the largest in the South-
ern Hemisphere, located in the
Orange Free State in Africa. At
this point Mars should appear
overhead each night during its
close approach, and the clear visi-
bility of the African winter should
be at its maximum.
Most Extensive
This exploration of Mars' sur-
face, in addition to the 20,000
photographs taken of the planet
during the summer of 1954 from
the same location, will be the most
extensive ever attempted.
Dr. E. C. Slipher, who will return
to South Africa to head the expe-
dition, and Dr. Albert G. Wilson
of the Lowell Observatory will at-
tempt to gain a more thorough
knowledge of the Martian "can-
als," plant life, atmosphere, and
geographical and climatic changes.
They will be aided not only by the
infrequent proximity of the plan-
ets, but also by new advances in
electronics which will boost the
light-gathering power of their
telescopes.
Mars, fourth planet from the
sun, follows an elliptical orbit re-
quiring 687 days for a circuit. Be-
cause of the eccentricity of its
orbit, it passes Earth about once
every two years at distances vary-
ing from 63 million miles to 35
million miles.
Entire Surface Visible
Close approaches such as the
one this summer occur every fif-
teen years. Mars, because of its
clear atmosphere and relatively
rapid rotation, is the only planet
in the solar system whose entire
surface is visible to astronomers.
Its rotation period is 24 hours and
37 minutes.
Mars is about half the -diameter
of Earth, and has a correspond-
ingly weaker gravity - 37 % of
Earth's. Its atmosphere is much
thinner; the pressure at the sur-
face -is lower than that at the
top of 29,000-foot Mount Everest.
Little oxygen has been found in
the Martian atmosphere, and only
pe To Aid in Mars Study,
traces of water vapor. The surface
is generally reddish, suggesting
deserts, over which blow yellow
clouds-possibly sandstorms.
Against this background appear
regions of changing size and
changing color, blue-green in
"spring," and browner in "fall"
and "winter." White polar caps,
perhaps ice or hoarfrost, also ad-
vance and recede over the planet's
surface, with the seasons, some-
times reaching halfway to the
equator.
Significant Change
During the 1954 survey, Dr. Sli-
pher noted a significant change in
the planet's surface: a blue-green
region of about 200,000 square
miles, approximately the size of
Texas. This was the most import-
ant change in Martian geography
since the planet was first charted
125 years ago.
According to Dr. Slipher, "Such
green areas testify that Mars is not
a dead world. Life of some sort
exists there.If this were not so,
the winds of Mars would long ago
have scattered the dust and sands
everywhere, rendering the whole
surface the same uniform tint."
Biologists believe that this life may
be akin to lichens, which have
been found even on barren Earthly
mountaintops.
Mysterious Canals
But the most fascinating of the
mysteries enshrouding the planet
are its canials, first seen in 1877
by G. Schiaparelli, an Italian as-
tronomer. When their existence
.was first announced, many people
interpreted Schiaparelli's name for
them, "canali," to mean channels,
and jumped to the conclusion that
they had been constructed by in-
telligent beings to irrigate their
bone-dry world. They have been
a subject of observation and con-
templation ever since.
Although the existence of a net-
work interlacing green areas and
desert regions is accepted, they are
supposed *by Dr. Slipher and his
colleagues to be 50-mile wide strips
of plant life. As the polar caps
melt or evaporate during the Mar-
tian Spring, moisture may be re-
leased to quicken vegetation, dark-
ening the blue-green area and
canals.
Difficult to Photograph
The canals have always been
difficult to photograph. The con-
stantly changing conditions in the
Earth's upper atmosphere, the
same conditions which cause the
twinkling of stars, raise havoc with
attempts by astronomers to photo-
graph objects such as the canals.
Up to now, good photographs
have been a rare occurrence, taken
only during the split second when
the conditions in our atmosphere
were nearly static. Photographs of
celestial objects require long ex-
posures, and this has made it
harder to obtain photographs dur-
ing these short intervals of good
seeing.
However, tests are now being
made at Lowell Observatory of
"image intensifiers," new electron-
ic apparatus capable of greatly
magnifying a telescope's power and
resolution of detail. Photographs
taken of an image in the Lumicon,
a light-boosting tube based on tele-
vision principles, require far short-
er exposure times through the tele-
scope alone.
Dr. Slipher and Dr. Wilson hope
that faster photographs will elimi-
nate the fuzziness of atmospheric
movement and give science its first
sharp, clear look at Mars.
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The following schools will have repre-
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1956-57 school year.
Tues., April 17-
Carson City, Mich.-Teacher needs:
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Social Studies.
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Community Schools) - Teacher needs:
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--Teacher needs: Elementary; Girls
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