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dated June 22, 1957: Organic life on Mars

The International Committee for planet Mars has conceded the possibility of some kind of organic life on Mars, but said that it would not be like life on the earth. The Committee, grouping astronomers of 12 nations, ended a three-day conference in Arizona on June 20. It examined nearly 100,000 photographs of Mars taken from observation posts in India, Japan, the United States, Java, South Africa, France and Argentina last year, when the planet was exceptionally close to the earth. The Committee’s Chairman said it emerged from reports, submitted by member-countries, that (1) atmospheric conditions on Mars are similar to those on earth but with greater extremes of temperature. (2) Apparently it rains on Mars. (3) A mysterious blue light periodically illumines part of the planet, but is not always visible at the same time from different observation points on earth. (4) The Mars polar cap is composed of three layers, the first of minerals, such as are found on earth, the second of ice and the third of white clouds.

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