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...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. spacecraft Mariner 4. The photographs revealed a barren planet that looked as dead as the moon. Lately, this view of Mars has been radically revised. Contrary to the first photographic impression, U.S. scientists told an international space conference in Madrid last week, Mars is still undergoing sharp climatic changes. Violent geological activity has left scars all across its crust and, most significant, there may be enough water on its surface...
...most spectacular ever undertaken from earth: an odyssey of two years and half a billion miles-including a hazardous stretch through the asteroid belt-to fly to within 87,000 miles of the planet Jupiter. If all goes well, the unmanned ship-Pioneer 10-will radio back the first closeup pictures of the giant planet, probe its intense magnetic fields and radiation belts and perhaps peek at one of the twelve Jovian moons. Then with the planet's powerful gravity acting as a slingshot, Pioneer will be hurled beyond Jupiter to begin the first voyage of a man-made...
...portable "mini" cameras 50 yds. downfield from the line of scrimmage. Sure enough, Washington caught a Brodie pass only a few feet from the sideline camera and raced into the end zone for a touchdown; Verna's viewers saw it all in a stunning instant-replay closeup. It is in such moments that TV football freaks are born...
Turning its cameras away from the Martian surface. Mariner provided a bonus for scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: the first closeup pictures of the two tiny moonlets of Mars. Deimos and Phobos. Sharpened and clarified by computers, the photographs finally laid to rest an enticing theory put forth a few years ago by Soviet Astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii. who said that the apparent behavior of Phobos in orbit meant that it could be hollow. That in turn suggested to Shklovskii that the moonlet might be an artificial satellite, lofted into orbit by a long-extinct Martian civilization. Instead, Mariner...
...outer moon, Deimos, and two of Phobos. In the course of the mission, scientists hope for much closer shots that will actually show surface features of these tiny bodies, which are so small (only a lew miles in diameter) that they appear as mere dots in earthbound telescopes. Closeup photographs of Phobos and Deimos (named after the sons of Mars, the Roman god of war) could finally put to rest the imaginative theory of Soviet Astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii. In an attempt to explain certain peculiarities-now attributed to misinterpretation of data-in the orbit of Phobos. Shklovskii suggested...