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The big party officially began on northeastern Maine's Mars Hill. It was there, at 4:31 a.m., that the rays of the rising sun first struck U.S. soil on July 4, and 550 local potato farmers and tourists cheered wildly as National Guardsmen fired a 50-gun salute...
"It may be that we don't understand Mars at all, or that all the areas of Mars are likely to be bad. But we shall find a place to land, I think ..."
If Viking Project Manager James S. Martin Jr. sounded plaintive last week, there was good reason. After studying photographs and radar scans of Viking's first alternative landing site on Mars' Chryse Planitia, the Plains of Chryse, he scrubbed a landing scheduled for July 17 and started studying...
Life Forms. It is possible - but not very likely - that these first pictures could dramatically show that there indeed is or was life on Mars. Shots of Fletcher's "eye"- or a scraggly plant or an obvious fossil- would provide instant and sensational evidence that might forever change man...
Sunlike Stars. Because of the complexity of the experiments and the time needed to interpret data at J.P.L., at least several weeks will pass before any definitive results of these life-seeking tests are known. If all of Viking 1's tests -and those done later by Viking 2...