Do you think there is life on Mars?
'OST scientists think
M that there is probably
life on Mars-at least plant life. Whatever life there is must be very hardy to withstand the rugged conditions of that planet.
During the nearly 12-month- long night at the poles of Mars it must get quite a bit colder than 60 degrees below zero. Naturally, during the 12-month- long day the polar regions get a bit hotter than 80 degrees.
These changes cause the Mars snow cap gradually to melt un- til, by the end of summer, the entire polar cap has melted.
MOSS-LIKE
As the polar cap melts, the water seeps southward causing areas of vegetation to come to life. This vegetation is probably lichen, a moss-like plant. As the polar cap begins to grow agala in the Autumn lichens die.
Scientists think the vegeta- tion on Mars is lichen because this is the only plant found on earth that could survive од Mars. The reason lichens could live on Mars is that they are actually two types of plants liv- ing together.
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Dr E. C. Slipher, an astronomer who has taken many photographs of the planet Mars, thinks there may be life there. By comparing these photographs, made in 1907, 1939 and 1954, he noticed that the dark area (arrows) seems to be growing larger. This spot was once thought to be a canal, but now it has reached a size of 300,000 square miles.
dark vegetation areas of Mars astronomers think that these connected by long straight lines, canals were made by Martians. Schiaparelli called these lines "canali,” the Italian word meaning "channels.”
canals
One plant is a fungus (mush- room type plant) and the other As you have probably guessed, is a moss. These two plants fur- these lines on the surface of nish one another with all the Mars are usually called material they need to live ex- instead of channels. A canal, of cept for a little air and water. course, is man-made (or An Italian astronomer, Gio Martian-made in this case) vanni Schiaparelli, Saw the waterway. Some, but not all,
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Percival Lowell, an American astronomer, thought that the canals were made by the Mar- tians to get the most possible use of their small water suppir. Other astronomers, who
een canals on Mars, think they are just natural cracks or val- leys.
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Some astronomers who haven't seen the canals, and some who have, think they are an illusion caused by our mind's tendency to join things together to make a logical pattern. You can test this for yourself by putting a circle full of splotches and marks on a paper. Now have your friends, or even yourself, copy this picture as it looks at several distances.
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When you get far away the splotches and will begin to form a pattern. Some scientists think this is what causes some people to see canals on Mars,
NO PICTURES
The fact that no pictures taken of Mars have ever shown canals seems to support this point of view. However, 2 camera takes a little longer to "see" something than our eyes do.
In the time a camera takes to make a photograph the cur- rents in Earth's atmosphere
have time to allow the image of Mars to move a little causing
the picture to be blurred. So
actually there may be canals on Mars which blur out in photo- graphs but which the eye can get fleeting glimpses of.
Besides seeing deserts, polar caps and vegetation areas
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Mars, some astronomers have seen white clouds appear at certain places and bover there. Astronomers think these caused by volcanoes,
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