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Show 1 . Why Mars I Uninhabited. 1 A the Martian year I composed of 6S6 days, each pole is exposed to the 1 sun's radiations during a period of more than sleven month, so that the , now deposited during one winter Is almost wholly melted before the fol lowing winter, says a writer lo liar ( per'a Weekly. A pocket barometer lo , Mars would register a pressure of a little over ten centimeters. This as- , mospherlc pressure Is so slight that the human organism, habituated to the bottom of the aerial ocean, where It supports a total pressure of 32.0oC pound, would be unable to survive ' No human being could live; no mam I nul, no bird of the organic structure I of the earthly animal, could resist 1 such slight pressor. Water could sot I remain liquid. 1 |