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...from their wheels to the top of their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 400 lbs. each and should be able to cover up to 3,000 ft. in their 90 days of life--including many days they will spend standing around studying rocks. Each has a robot arm crowded with instruments: a rock-abrasion tool for boring into samples, a pair of spectrometers for analyzing mineral composition and measuring radioactive and electromagnetic radiation, and a microscopic imager. "The rovers are like field geologists going out to a new place," says Steve Squyres of Cornell University, NASA's principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destination Mars | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...they still get sick. Noo confides that he has diarrhea, and asks, "Do you have any medicine?" Boonma rummages in his bag with arthritic hands and finds some antibiotics. "Try this," he says, clasping the arm of his former nemesis. "And sorry it's been so long between house calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Red to Green and Back | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...tall from their wheels to the top of their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 180 kg each and should be able to cover up to 915 m in their 90 days of life - including many days they will spend standing around studying rocks. Each has a robot arm crowded with instruments: a rock-abrasion tool for boring into samples, a pair of spectrometers for analyzing mineral composition and measuring radioactive and electromagnetic radiation, and a microscopic imager. "The rovers are like field geologists going out to a new place," says Steve Squyres of Cornell University, NASA's principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destination Mars | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

They saw Merchant, his career finished after being subbed out with under a minute to play, collapse into the somber comfort of hugs and tears along the bench, finally permitting himself release. And then, moments later, they saw him stride off the court arm-in-arm with Prasse-Freeman...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Battles to Doomed End | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...bookcase is bare, except for a thin volume called An Introduction to Logic, as Andrew A. Jantz leans his arm on one of the empty shelves...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala and Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Taking Care of Square Business | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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