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390 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
polar caps were frozen water. 5 If the polar caps were completely melted,
it was estimated that the water produced would cover the entire planet to
a depth of about 20 feet.
Along with the early ultraviolet photographs showing a substantial
atmosphere, it has been shown that the environmental constituents for life
exists on Mars. The three basic parameters are carbon dioxide, water, and
oxygen—the ferrous oxide soil being the indirect evidence for oxygen. It
is necessary to point to the indirect evidence for oxygen, since NASA
refuses to confirm the presence of oxygen in the Martian atmosphere. That
is the single remaining ace in their hand. And they keep it, because they
know that only the process of photosynthesis by living plants can account
for the presence of oxygen in any planet's atmosphere. During the Viking
mission, NASA admitted finding nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, and
water vapor, although they kept the relative percentages and overall density
out of proportion to the true conditions. But NASA is holding out on
the oxygen and will not admit finding it with the Viking probes, because
atmospheric oxygen would be recognized by scientists as positive proof
that life exists on Mars. But the remaining evidence to be discussed will
prove the case.
Before the space agency came into existence on October 1, 1958, scientific
astronomers at the large observatories were still the experts and
authorities on the planets. It seems as though it was preordained in the
heavens that the independent thinkers would have one last chance to probe
the mystery of our neighboring planet, as Mars swung by in favorable
opposition in 1954 and 1956. In its first approach, Mars came within a distance
of 39,800,000 miles. The second time, in 1956, the planet was only
35,120,000 miles away. It would not be that close again until 1971, when
planetary exploration and pronouncements were in the hands of NASA.
But in 1954 the excitement ran high in astronomical circles, because an
international Mars Committee had been formed, to plan an around the
world "Mars patrol." Prominent scientists from seventeen countries would
be coordinating telescopic studies from the world's largest observatories,
as Mars made its closest approach in July. Some of the countries involved
included the United States, France, Italy, Turkey, India, Japan, Australia,
South Africa, Java, Egypt, and Argentina. 6
The international team of scientists was headed by the world's greatest
Mars expert, Dr. E. C. Slipher, then the Director of the Lowell Observatory
[Flagstaff, Arizona]. He and most of the committee members were well
aware of all the previous astronomical records—the mysterious clouds,
flares, markings, radio signals, and the evidence for canals and vegetation.
Some privately believed that there was an intelligent civilization on Mars,
for in 1938, it had been announced that the Lowell Observatory found evi-