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 Clarke Says
There Is Life On Mars
June 14, 2001 7:10 CDT
Sir
Arthur C. Clarke, probably the world's most famous space
author, spoke by phone from Sri Lanka on June 6, to the
Wernher von Braun Memorial Lecture Series. He told the
audience he believes that new images of Mars clearly
show the red planet dotted with patches of vegetation, including
trees.
He feels
this fact may spark new exploration of Mars. He and
director Stanley Kubrick joined to produce "2001: A
Space Odyssey." Clarke claims to have studied images
from Mars taken by the now-orbiting Mars Global Surveyor
on his home computer.
Clarke
encourages everyone to have a really good look at these
new Mars images," Clarke said. "Something is actually
moving and changing with the seasons that suggests, at
the very least vegetation." There is something akin to
Banyan trees in some Mars photos. He pointed out several
times over the course of his lecture that he was
completely serious about his observations.
Source:
Smithsonian
Cosmiverse Staff
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