The suggestion that condemned murderers should be used for cancer research wor's war made by De. Norbury, Medical Offer of Healt to the Holywell Rural Ca a speech in surest of his prompt' and courageous. action undoubtedly saved the pilot's lif since the burning petrol spread rapidly ud rendered any. subse-aunt approach to the wreckage im erful results have been el tained by astronomers with the al of a little instrument so sensitive that i can measure the temperature the planets millions of miles away. Jupiter, the giant of the solar system, has been found to cold, Previously, it was believed! to be in a semi-sun-like state. The results of observations "with thi rument from American objew were revealed by the R. Phillips, President the Royal Astronomical Society, the Rexal Institation en Saturday.
id the instrument was plac in the fucuy of a powerful telescope te in adjustment that it could be directed to selec ed parts of a plinet's surface. Coupled to a galvanometer—a_decate receiving apparatus—it re. wisters with remarkable aceafacy the heat radiated.
Mr. Phillips said the instrument had revealed that summer tempera tures on Mars are higher than those of winter, and that the afternoons are warmer than the even ings. Around the Martian poles in summer, the temperature about freezing point, and in the equatorial regions during the day itis quite pleasant, with a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The agence of a dense—atmosphere makes the nights extremely cold, many degrees below zero, but it i Ne that sentient beings there who have adapted themselves to the big differencestbetween day and night temperatiqe, Mercury is a furnace, quite unfitted th sustain any kind of life we can For this baby planet, the nearest to the fun, the thermo. couple records a temperature dogrovs F.. a temperature? at iron becomes incandeseest.
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