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While the Spirit rover combs the surface of Mars looking for clues of past life, we're poring over the sharpest photos ever seen of the Red Planet. NASA's website has struggled to keep up with public demand, and the Mars mission is clearly a victory, especially considering the...
TIME.com: Have any of the initial discoveries been surprising? Kluger: The biggest surprise so far is the dark patch of dirt that was dragged by Spirit's airbags during landing. It resembles mud, but it can't be mud, because of the absence of water, and therein lies the mystery...
TIME.com: Will Mars mean anything more to us in our lifetimes? Kluger: Anytime you go somewhere it means more to you. The more contact you have with something, the more you learn about it. Does it mean that it might in time be common for people to go to Mars...
The biggest hurdle right now in terms of sending humans to Mars is the exposure to radiation. But all of this is simply scaling up on existing technology. It took only nine years to send a man to the moon after starting from scratch, so we're in a better...
TIME.com: Will space exploration ever captivate the public again like it did in the 1960s? Kluger: The landing of Pathfinder on Mars in the summer of 1997 was the closest I've seen to people really gathering around TVs and being as excited as they were in the 1960s. There...