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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, on the 157th day of an arcing, 242-million-mile journey across the solar system Mariner 6 reached its destination. In the closest approach to Mars ever achieved by a man-made object, the U.S. spacecraft flew within 2,130 miles of earth's planetary neighbor.
On command from its computer, Mariner 6's electronic gear poured out an endless stream of data from the red planet-information about the density and composition of its atmosphere and its varying surface temperatures. On board the ungainly, 850-lb. ship, whose four solar panels gave it the...
Despite ingenious techniques of optical and radio telescopy, astronomers have piled up more questions about Mars than answers. What is the true nature of those strange seasonal dark-enings? Are the white polar caps composed of frozen water or, as many astronomers believe, dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide)? Do those...
As expected, the final 24 photographs that were shot just before Mariner 6 ducked behind Mars were the most dramatic. Taken from as close as 2,170 miles, they showed a bleak, forbidding landscape, unmistakably similar to the harsh terrain of the moon. "I've seen so many craters...
Romney, who has seen his ten-year program to build 26 million houses mired in budget shortages, argues that "we should revise and reverse our priorities." But he does not deny Agnew's man-on-Mars proposal a place among them. To do so would be to subscribe to...