The February 28 , 1957 Lowell Sun ( Lowell , MA ) ran a fantastic piece about the plant and animal life we would in all likelihood determine on Mars . A single-valued function that accompanied the piece even lay out where the likely flora , comeupance , canals and oases were locate .
The 1957 Disneyland television receiver episodeMars and Beyondshared many of the same assumptions aboutanimal life on the Red Planet . Of course it would be difficult for life to hold itself on Mars , that ’s why they ’re Martians !
An excerpt from the Lowell Sun piece appears below .
The Martians recognize the first distance travelers from Earth may be fantastic furry picayune creatures peeking out of lonely burrows .
Speculation that Mars might have brute life is contained in a al-Qur’an , “ A Space Traveler ’s scout to Mars , ” by Dr. I. M. Levitt of the Fels Planetarium , Philadelphia .
But these Martians would be astonishingly unlike from earthly animals , living by a different alchemy of life dictate by terrible conditions of our Red Planet neighbor .
Many astronomers suppose Mars has some kind of plant life life . One bit of evidence is changes in blue - green areas , which could be plant life life distribute with the season over the Martian deserts .
And if there are plants , are there beast that fee on them and assist molder dead plants ?
See also : Animal Life on Mars ( 1957)Plant aliveness on Mars ( 1957)Mars and Beyond ( 1957 )
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