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ROCK FESTIVAL ON MARS
Barnacle Bill. Yogi. Casper. Scooby Doo. Flat Top, Boo-Boo. The Couch. Souffle. After billions of years of anonymity, a motley collection of rocks on the Martian...
THE LAST TIME WE SAW MARS
How cheap is NASA's new "better, faster, cheaper" design philosophy? Compare this week's Pathfinder mission with the two Viking missions 21 years ago. Conceived...
MARS: VISIT TO A SMALLER PLANET
On the night of the Fourth, when we landed on Mars, I walk the beach and watch the fireworks compete with the stars in the enormous black sky. This is...
NEXT STOP: MARS
Time was, Mars was a busy place. Everybody, it seemed--or at least everybody at NASA--wanted to fling something the Red Planet's way. First there were Mariner...
LIFE ON MARS
The discovery of evidence that life may exist elsewhere in the universe raises that most profound of all human questions: Why does life exist at all? Is it...
MARS AS DIVINE CARTOON
The great American metaphysician Chuck Jones discerned some years ago that the universe operates in sequences of violent Newtonian reciprocities. Jones...
Space: Race To Mars?
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see . . . Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails . . . -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson...
Cinema: Mind Bending on Mars
TOTAL RECALL Directed by Paul Verhoeven Screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon and Gary Goldman What do you want a Hollywood movie to be? Well, for a start,...
Space: Onward to Mars
From the Kennedy Space Center and the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome, powerful shuttles and unmanned rockets lift off week after week, bearing construction...
Space: Pros And Cons of a Flight to Mars
For years, U.S. and Soviet space scientists have agreed that Mars is a tantalizing target for exploration. Fragmentary data suggest that the planet may once have...
Science: New Thoughts On Mars
The three experiments have been extensively tested using terrestrial soil samples and, as a result, it is safe to say that it is extremely unlikely that a...
Space: Mars: The Riddle of the Red Planet
Mars was a distant shore and the men spread upon it in waves ... The first wave carried with it men accustomed to spaces and coldness and being alone ... They...
Science: Mars: The Search Begins
As a Bicentennial spectacular, it was meant to be out of this world: a July 4 touchdown on Mars by Viking 1's robot lander to begin the search for life on the...
CORPORATIONS: Profiting in the Sinai--and on Mars
Few conglomerates grew so rapidly as Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. in the late 1960s, and few have come apart so spectacularly in the 1970s. Today the company is no...
Science: Looking for Life on Mars
Space shots may be old hat to launch crews at the Kennedy Space Center. But there was an unusual air of excitement as technicians made final preparations for...
Science: Return to Mars
Although the U.S. Skylab space station has overshadowed recent Russian manned space ventures, the Soviet Union is pressing ahead as strongly as ever in...
Space: 1986: A Space Odyssey to Mars
IT is April 1986, one year since the giant spacecraft blasted out of orbit around earth and headed into deep space, propelled by powerful nuclear engines. The...
Science: New Image for Mars
Man's old dream about life on Mars seemed to fade for good in 1965 when the first closeup pictures of the red planet were radioed back to earth by the U.S...
Science: A Clear View of Mars
When Mariner 9 arrived in the neighborhood of Mars last November, its TV cameras were thwarted by the billowing yellow dust clouds of a gigantic storm that...
Science: Is There Life on Mars
I cannot say I believe that there is life out there. All I can say is that there are a number of reasons to think it is possible and that we have at our command...
