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...crowds that have come to Venice for the Biennale seem a little dazed by the sun and heat - it's 36C in the lush gardens of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and everybody is wearing linen shorts, T shirts and sandals. Everybody, that is, except the mountainous man striding through the gardens in his dark suit and tie. Thomas Krens is hard to miss in any setting; in Venice, he attracts knowing glances from the art world crowd. Even at the Biennale, a premier event on the international art calendar, the big American may be the biggest show in town...
...other formations on Mars that look as if they were once flooded with water, a key requirement for life. All will also reach the surface in the Rube Goldbergian fashion pioneered by NASA's Mars Pathfinder in the summer of 1997, slowing their fall with a combination of heat shields, parachutes and, in the case of the U.S. landers, braking rockets. All will come to a bouncing landing swaddled in air bags...
...specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 3 ft. wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 5 ft. below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 1,600ºF to generate carbon dioxide and a mass spectrometer to identify carbon isotopes, along with other elements. The lander can also measure ultraviolet radiation, temperature and atmospheric pressure, all variables that play a key role in biology. "If there is one mission capable of detecting past...
...other formations on Mars that look as if they were once flooded with water, a key requirement for life. All will also reach the surface in the Rube Goldbergian fashion pioneered by NASA's Mars Pathfinder in the summer of 1997, slowing their fall with a combination of heat shields, parachutes and, in the case of the U.S. landers, braking rockets. All will come to a bouncing landing swaddled in air bags. The esa mission, which launched last week, was the first off the blocks, but it is the U.S. missions, scheduled for lift-off on Sunday, June...
...specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 91 cm wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 1.5 m below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 870?C to generate carbon dioxide and a mass spectrometer to identify carbon isotopes, along with other elements. The lander can also measure ultraviolet radiation, temperature and atmospheric pressure, all variables that play a key role in biology. "If there is one mission capable of detecting past...