INVESTIGATION OF MARS
A MILLIONAIRE'S PROJECT.
GIANT TELESCOPE BUILDING
(Received 11.30 p.m.)
Unifcsd Service. LONDON, Sept. 6. Utilising Chanaral, in Chile., as an observation station, Mr. B. McAfee, an American millionaire scientist, and Professor Todd, of Harvard University, intend in 1924 to study Mars to determine whether there is intelligent life on the planet.
An enormous telescope is being constructed. Mr. McAfee has dispensed with a glass mirror, and has substituted his own invention, a flat dish, 50ft. in diameter, in which mercury will be poured and rotated at a certain speed, the surface of the mercury thereby assuming the necessary concavity, and forming a splendid nurror. The total magnification of the telescope will be 25,000,000. This will bring the surface of Mars, which is 35,000,000 miles away, within about one and a-half miles of the observers. During 1924 Mars on' three occasions will be nearer the earth than at any other time for a century.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17881, 8 September 1921, Page 5
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