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changed to autumn, the colors would gradually turn to yellow and gold,
finally returning to brown in winter. (The surface color of Mars is not dark
red, as I will prove later.)
The parade of colorful seasons was interpreted by open-minded astronomers
as the seasonal growth and ripening of vegetation. Cyclic
growth coincided regularly with the natural climatic changes on the planet,
just as we have here on Earth. I am not discussing the canals and their
irrigation for crop growing, at the moment. These seasonal changes showing
cyclic plant life would be taking place even if man were not there on
Mars.
The presence of vegetation on Mars was held to be a certainty in some
quarters, but hotly debated by others. But the way to end all argument was
to prove the existence of carbon dioxide, oxygen, and the water in the
Martian environment, which would indicate that photosynthesis (the life
process) of plants was in fact taking place. Carbon dioxide was there in
abundance—even conservative scientists agreed on that, for it was commonly
speculated that the atmosphere's chief constituent was carbon
dioxide. Oxygen seemed likely, though it could not be detected in the
atmosphere from earth-based studies. The evidence for oxygen was indicated
by some regional soil colors, which indicated that certain areas contained
a large amount of ferrous oxide, or limonite. We have some tropical
regions on Earth where the soil is reddish-brown limonite, and two
things are necessary for its formation: abundant oxygen and extreme
humidity in the air. Apparently, oxygen was in the atmosphere of Mars, as
the natural product of plant photosynthesis.
To briefly explain photosynthesis, it is the biological process by which
green plants containing chlorophyll use the energy of sunlight to synthesize
carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water. Six molecules of water
and six molecules of carbon dioxide are transformed with the aid of solar
energy into one molecule of glucose and six molecules of oxygen. The
oxygen is then liberated into the atmosphere. We breathe in the oxygen
and exhale carbon dioxide, which in turn the green plants use in photosynthesis,
and oxygen is returned to the atmosphere. This is Nature's perfect
cycle. If all the green plants were suddenly removed from the Earth,
all human and animal life would die, because the oxygen we breathe
would not be replenished.
The last thing that needed to be confirmed in order to prove the seasonal
vegetation on Mars, was the existence of water. For this evidence it
is easiest to jump ahead for a moment to the U.S. Viking project of 1976.
The Viking I orbiter photographed extensive ground fog, mists, and cloud
rover in the northern hemisphere, and from readings taken by sensitive
instruments on the orbiting probe, it was proven once and for all, that the