PLANET MARS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 August 1924, Page 9

PLANET MARS

POSSIBILITY OF NFAV STARS. REPORTS OF OBSERVERS. BY CABLE -PRE3S ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 25, 9.25 a m. NEW YORK, Aug. 24. Many observations made at Lowell observatory confirm the opinion that the heat on Mars is sufficient ito support organic life as we know it. 'l«rie southern snow cap was quite easily seen, like a huge snow button. The planet’s .summer season is just beginning and the observations during the next few weeks are expected to afford interesting data. . Harvard astronomers watching Mars were rewarded by the discovery of new stars in the magellanic cloud. They state that the stars are of greater brijliance than any others seen in that group and are- three or four times' larger than the fatted giants Betelgeuse and Antares. It is estimated that there are more than .half a million stars that are at least a hundred times as luminous as. our sun in the small magellanic cloud, which is receding from the Milky Way' at a velocity of a hundred miles per second.—Sydney Sun Cables

Received Aug. 25, 11.35 a in. VANCOUVER, Aug. 23. A message from Flagstaff states that the presence of steam or vapour arising from the melting polar caps and the appearance of clouds on the surface, establishing the fact that atmosphere exists on Mars, are outstanding developments of the study of the planet at Lowell observatory during the present observations.

Doctor Slipher, observatory director, states that the planet’s surface is divided into red and blue or green regions. The red portions have the same appearance as the earth’s desert regions and are little affected by the changing seasons, but the blue or gi een districts which some astronomers contend to be seas show a unt that changes at different seasons. The present theory is that the blue or green regions are vegetation, for they lade out later in some sections to a chocolate brown colour. —Reuter. LONDON, Aug. 24. The editor of the publication Popular Wireless, accompanied bv Prolessor I,ow, when listening-in" for a message from Mars, hoard curious noises harsh long dots, in groups at irregular intervals. They ' are convinced that they were not of eartnly on S'»- n The «:t was tuned to well over 30 000 metres. Professor Low is sceptical and explains that- the noise, were probably caused by a mixture of atmosphere lietrodyning between distant stations.—Sydney Sun Cables [received Aug. 25, 11.35 a m mu , , NEW YORK, Aug.'23. ihe week s observation of the Martian Perihelion in opposition has repealed nothing revolutionary inasmuch as observers’ opinions continue ke contradictory, similar to 1870 uhen the debate concerning the charactenstics of Mars began. “ Nevertheless the closer view has afforded an Of tlfe C pTanrt? k,,o "' led K t -' The observatory at Flagstaff (Arizona) noted what was presented as greater vegetative growth than was foimerly discernible Professors Eldwin Frost and Yerkes bL FP observatory at Chicago, whicli has the, largest refracting lens in the hSf ’iff thei r behef I ‘"tSt i itial .ife on Mars is almost out of the question, bub reasserted that fmmi piobably exist there. t " 3 It is generally agreed that radio Fu- £ ilpsl NLZ. Ca.ble°AssjI nUS,Ia