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...plane. The Martian flyover in a yet-to-be-designed unmanned plane is scheduled for 2003 -- fittingly, the 100th anniversary of the first Wright brothers flight. Symbolism aside, an unprecedented amount of Martian data will be collected. "We are entering a new phase," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger, who notes that the last Pathfinder mission was the first in which the surface exploration of Mars was carried out by a moving spacecraft. The plane mission takes "such mobile exploration to a new level," says Kluger. "It will allow the close study of much more land area and surface features...
...technological challenges of the plane mission are daunting. "The agency must be able to deliver and then fly a planelike craft in an atmosphere that is 1 percent as dense as the atmosphere of Earth," says Kluger. "It's an ambitious undertaking, but NASA has succeeded in meeting challenges like this in the past." Until the plane mission lifts off, NASA is putting its eggs in two more conventional modes of exploring the planet: Within the year, a polar orbiter will be surveying Mars and a lander will arrive to study what lies beneath its surface. Martians, beware: The Earthlings...
...long wait for Japan's first Mars mission, but timing is everything in space. "Flying from any cosmic point A to any cosmic point B is like leading ducks when you're hunting," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, coauthor of the book "Apollo 13." "You can't aim for where a planet is, you have to aim for where it's going to be." With a Martian year lasting roughly two of our years, missing the rendezvous means you have a while to wait before the motion of the two bodies coincides again. "If an error of one degree...
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