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Dr. Slipher assigned himself to make observations from
the best location possible the Lamont Hussey Observatory in South Africa [
The Mars Expedition ]. It had the largest refracting telescope in the
southern hemisphere, and Mars would be passing directly overhead each
night during opposition. And before the project got underway, Slipher
publicly stated that if he found proof of life on Mars, he would announce
it to the world.
The Mars Expedition took 20,000 photographs and
confirmed the presence of both the canals and vegetation. The canals did
not meander at all like a river would; they followed great circle courses,
which are the shortest distance between two points on a globe. Many
planetary astronomers had speculated previously, that if photographs
showed that the canals were along great circle paths, it could be
concluded that they were the work of intelligent beings. The scientists
were getting exceptional pictures also, because the Lowell Observatory was
using a new electronic camera that could amplify faint markings, and
photograph in 1/10 of a second to prevent atmospheric turbulence from
blurring the details. One canal was found to run straight as an arrow for
1500 miles, something that no natural water channel could do.
Dr.
Slipher brought enough photographs back from South Africa to prove that
the canals were real, and manmade. While providing abundant vegetation
growth alongside their straightline courses, the canals also proved to be
the common link between the green oases. An intricate pumping system
seemed to be the only explanation when considering the distances involved.
More than 40 canals and 15 oases were photographed in the first week. But
the Mars committe reports never became public, and they were therefore
unknown outside a very limited part of the astronomical community. The
newfindings were privately logged ...
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During
the November 1958 opposition, Dr. William Sinton conducted studies at the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The scientistastronomer performed
careful infrared scans of the bright desert areas and the dark green
oases, and found that the sun's energy was absorbed in certain wavelengths
over the dark areas, but not over the desert regions. The absorption
wavelengths were at 3.43, 3.56, and 3.67 microns, and these are exactly
the same wavelengths absorbed by hydrocarbon compounds. His study proved
that there is green plant life on the broad oases of Mars, and that it is
organically composed of carbonhydrogen compounds, the same as our own
terrestrial vegetation. In other words, his scientific evidence showed
that Martian plant life is based on the same carbon cycle as we find on
Earth.
The decision was to make the planet appear lifeless,
unnatural, and barren. This was accomplished by photographing in black and
white, and computer processing the pictures into a nondistinct, drab gray.
Broad areas simply resolved into shadows and blurs without any apparent
surface features, except for a few pictures of deserted badlands and
canyons. The majority of photos released were pointless to look at,
because they were nothing more than shades of gray, with no detail. The
routine sampling that was handed out to the scientific community led to
the automatic conclusion that the latest pictures proved the nonexistence
of the canals. But the photographic quality and resolution was so
artificially poor, that the Mariner 9 photographic results could not have
proved anything, (and the censors knew it.)
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