THE PLANET MARS.
PROPOSED INVESTIGATION. BY ENORMOUS TELESCOPE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.! Received September 7, 9.30 p.m. London, September 6. Utilising Chanaral, in Chile, as an observation station, Mr. B. McAfee, an American millionaire scientist, and Professor Todd, of Harvard University, intend in 1924 to study Mars, to determine as to the existence of human life, and whether intelligent work is done on that planet. An enormous' telescope is at presentbeing constructed. Mr. McAfee has dispensed with a glass mirror and substituted his own invention, a flat dish fifty feet in diameter, wherein mercury will be poured and rotated at a certain speed, the surface of the mercury assuming the necessary concavity, and forming a splendid mirror. The total magnification will be twen-ty-five millions, whereby the surface or Mars, thirty-five million miles away, will be brought to within about one and a half miles of the observers.
During 1624 Mars, on three occasions, will be nearer the earth than it has been for a- century.—United Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 5
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