MARS COM ING NEARER.
PROBLEM OF LIFE ON THE PLANET.
Mars, the most controversial of Ml planets, will be nearer to the earth at midnight (Greenwich time) on August 22 next than at any time during the last 120 years.
It will be 34,500,000 miles away. Its normal distance from the'earth varies. It is sometimes 63,000.000 miles away.
Suggestions for communicating with Mars, pinch ' many scientists believe to be inhabited, include the sending of signals by wireless, light rays, smoke, and even by growing large tracts of vegetation in the shape ol triangles, squares, or other signs that, would suggest to possible Martians that the earth was trying to communicate with them.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9798, 7 May 1924, Page 4
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112MARS COMING NEARER. Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9798, 7 May 1924, Page 4
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