Show new data on adars study of photographs of mars mare taken when it was at its shortest distance from the earth approximately miles has enabled scientists to arrive at definite conclusions an expedition was sent out by the observatory and leningrad university it worked in the summer of 1939 at tashkent Tash kent capital of the central asian uzbek Te republic public where atmospheric conditions are favorable and took more than photographs of the red planet it has been determined that mars has quite a dense atmosphere in which something resembling clouds and mists are formed study of the main lands the dark sections showed that they are regions covered with sands containing ferrous oxide explaining the planets orange coloring |