A CHILLY WORLD
temperatures on mars caxifornian' 'measurements. . (united press association.—coptriqht.) (australian-new zealand cable association.) (Received 29th September, 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON 28th September. Indications that the temperature on Mars is low, and the atmosphere rare, are announced by the Carnegie Institute as the result of observations at tho California Observatory, during the recent approach o£ the planet. Tho /measurements o£ the temperature and heat radiation were made ' with a vacuum thermo-couple attached to the 100-inch reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson. Tho measurements indicate that in the tropical region of Mars, at noon, the t temperature is 10 degrees above freez- [ ing point; and" the mean temperature I over, the polar cap is 95 dogrees bolow ! zero Fahrenheit. The average temperature in the tropics between the Martian sunrise and 9 o'clock is 10 degrees ' aboyo zero. The maximum heat comes at the Martian noon.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1924, Page 7
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143A CHILLY WORLD Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1924, Page 7
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