| Show r COAST SKY GAZERS Will LOOK FOR HUMANS Of PLANET MARS Scientist in n Large L rge C California Observatories Polish Telescopes Starts Approaching Earth About Augustus By Dr USE LEE I E W tN SI Special aI Correspondent of The Examiner 24 the th Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated copyright 1 by dated Press Aj SAN FRANCISCO RA Aue Aug Tho 2 2 The of the plan planet t Mr Mars Marii to t go wand through h the th great reat spaces a couple each c century together with man s 5 modern In In prying In- In Into Into In Into to perplexing astronomical secrets may mav load lead to the vh solution before the present month Is la over of the mooted question of whether winner that huge ethereal body Is I Inhabited On On August C 22 the th treat greet planet bout about which humans human have hav won Won- Wondered wondered dered so 50 o much and know so o little Is h subjected ct d to go on such a wan wan- journey end and nd b before fore It Is over c expert pert astronomers ond nd giant tel telescopes scopes located In it-i fIve big Call Cali California fornia are ar expected to find an answer n w r to the th hitherto unsolved rIddle On that date dat s as- as will get ret a chance chanc for forthe forthe forthe the best bot studY of the th planet that ha has ever I been obtainable For four twenty four four hours hour Mars Mar will be only 25 2 mils miles away from the earth erth mile miles nearer than It has hM be been n et at t any time tim In n 47 years and nd and inthIs close proximity according to modern day m measure measure- meat ment of sidereal rc 1 spice spaces astronomers mers fliers mers hope hop to learn much CLOSER E R pIT E II IT Y DO The movement of the th war gods god's 1 huge uge planet toward the earth Is tue ettie to start approximately e 1 eek before August t 22 23 Each dAy dy it will come closer and closer UP- UP until un until til e esen ev en n to the th naked eye ey the th crim ct crimson son body will appear a much bright bright- brighter er bricht-er er and large larget than It ever eser seemed Il fore Aft After r August 22 It will commence to retire to Its former r-pi r Preparations are beIng belne made for observations through th huge nuge reflecting telescopes copes at the tho ia Carnegie solar olar observatory on o Mount Lowe Low the naval t atoa Y at Mare Mar Island the tb Lick ser a tory on Mount Hamilton and the Clara ob erv dory atory Giant glasses lILt at ehl II five fire observatories will be b kept trained upon Mars Man Mantor Mar tor for tor all II 14 days while It Is In move mesa mo movement e- e ement ment toward tIe the earth arth and back to the th position It regularly occupies occupies pies Since Sine atmospheric conditions condition on nth the Pacific coast have hav been ben found unusually s ia-s able rable tor for astronomical astronomical astronomical mical study tudy and In much 1 as the mechanical 1 equipment of at nt I least ut three of ot the observatories here her Is the most moat modern In the th world the honor may tall fall to to astronomers astronomer here hereof hereof of first telling whether there thre Is life on the th mystery planet plant CHANGES Many of tho world worlds s a most emI ensi- emInent nent ml-nent nent astronomers astronomer hase hav hll e long lone be- be be believed that M Mars rs not only was hab ha-b- habitable liable but that It actually wu was wa In- In inhabited In Inhabited habited by humans Photographs Photograph obtained through powerful tele- tele telescopes telescopes tel scopes already have havo predicted d that atmospheric conditions similar to those surroundIng our world iston st ston on Mars Mart that th there her re a changes and that the tile plant planeta planets planet's sur- sur tic ur-tic flee like that of this world Is I In- In In with mountains valle valleys and rivers rivera i Recent photographs taken at 10 Lowell ell observatory In Arizona also alio show how astronomers contend that Mars Mar has haa ha Polar like those of this world orld I Commenting r upon the th It Ity of life bel help dIscovered dl upon Mars Mors In observations observation to be b dc here thIs month Captain I T J 7 J f Son See United States State navy novy director of the naval observatory at t Mare Mar M re hal hal- Island haland I l- l and nd saltS MId ald today FAVOR Fo LE FOR UI J Flom the presence pre enc of snow now and clouds shown hown In photographs photograph al- al already already al already ready obtained It follows s that Mars has s an atmosphere r cApable of o pro pro- r during water vapor apor and cones cones- cono qu an atmosphere atm phere similar to that of our earth carth arth In all probability It ity Martian le Is I ran tied tied fled similar to that In the lava Hima-lava 18 laia a mountains of As Ai Alia or the Andes of ot South but America but It IS cert J that th there re Is I t at- at at mOS here Knowing this and ond also that eison seon seasons change chanis on Mars Mara imi- imi lar tar to those of this earth we arth may maybe maybe maybe be equally euro tur that If If certain animals known to our globe lIke the Andean condor llama and even man used to these the high altitudes could be b landed land d In Mars Mar M ra theY could live and breath brath comfortably provided plants plant on which they could subsist Iso also al were there The probabIlity also alo Is that climatic and atmospheric conditions condition which we ve have hav learned exist there thel ther O ato h have ve combined to pro produce uee such uch uch vegetation It It therefore th Is I very probable Indeed aJmo t in ceita-in that Mart a Is filled with the same Mme sam forms torm of life as on earth and perhaps many more forms torm f than are ar known to us here We W cannot say eay with an n certainty that Martian people and anima are ar In any ay similar to the forms form of life lit liens here ere but Out livIng things there ther like here probably o havo bO body animated by nervous n stems for tor control All elements are as s favorable for tor ife lt there as th they are ar here r n |
