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- ARTHUR C. CLARKE STANDS BY HIS BELIEF IN LIFE ON
MARS
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- SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM -- 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
encourges 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.
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- Editor's Note: I personally have also studied these
images and agree with Sir Arthur Clarke that there are signs of
vegetation evident in the photos. I had experience in photo
interpretation while in the Air Force and I think the water at the
Martian Poles is melting in the spring and creating some kind of
vegetation as it moves towards the equator. The color and branches
appear similar to trees. In addition, there also appear to be
structures, possible earth moving equipment, tunnels, and other
indications of Martian Life. Having traveled to many of our Earth's
pyramids, the D&M Pyramid on Mars is particularly intriguing. The
five-sided pyramid reveals a structure that is contradictory with the
surrounding geology. Neither volcanic nor other geomorphologic
processes are likely to create a natural mechanism for the formation
of an equilateral five-sided pyramid. Further like our own pyramids
the structure is situated in a complex surrounded by other likely
structures. The pyramid is only part of the larger Cydonia complex.
The structures have a similarity to the ancient Kingdom of Kush in
Sudan. We can speculate the Cydonia complex may represent some type of
fortifications or religious compound. The corners of the D&M
Pyramid appear to point towards the city at Cydonia and the Mars face.
The pyramids on Earth are known to be structures built by intelligent
beings, it seems logical that intelligence was needed to build or
shape the D&M Pyramid. Additionally, the possibility of a tunnel
complex on Mars creates even more interesting questions. The intricate
relationships are so numerous that I must agree with Sir Arthur Clarke
that the highly sophisticated designs indicates life on Mars.
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