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- From: samw@bucket.rain.com (Sam Warden)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: the Happyface on Mars
- Message-ID: <samw.720996345@bucket>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:45:45 GMT
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- Lawrence Curcio <lc2b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- >According to _Flying Saucers - Serious Business_, by Frank Edwards, a
- >face was detected in a visual representation of radio signals from Mars.
- >The signals were recorded by C. F. Jenkins in 1924. Then, years later,
- >we get the face from a space probe.
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- So much for that authoritative work. Jenkins was sounding the
- newly-discovered ionosphere I believe, and got some anomalously
- long-delayed echoes. Nuch later someone fitted the frequency-
- delay plot to a map of some nearby stars, but I don't think
- there was ever a connection with Mars. I don't know that his
- equipment was directional enough, or the frequencies high enough,
- to have done so anyway. Odds are it was the magnetosphere. ;-)
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