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"The J.P.L. crowd," he says, "is looser, more relaxed, without those worries of having a man up there. Also there is more of a sense of true exploration, more a feeling of touching the 2001 slab. Because of the scarcity of facts about Mars, there is more scientific speculation, a...
Convinced by the findings of the Apollo missions that the moon is lifeless, the earth's two superpowers were concentrating on the next target of opportunity: Mars. A pair of spacecraft, America's Mariner 9 and Russia's Mars 2, were in orbit around the Red Planet, seeking out conditions...
At the same time, scientists were readying Pioneer F, a spacecraft that will take off in February on a 600-to 700-day journey to Jupiter, which could harbor life?or the precursors of life ?in its atmosphere. In 1973, if all goes well, Pioneer will send back pictures...
(3 of 10) detecting any signs of life on Mars from a distance of thousands of miles, Sagan sifted through pictures of the earth taken by weather satellites and discovered that only one shot in a thousand showed evidence of man's presence. He presented his conclusions in a provocative...
Exobiologists do not insist that life exists on Mars; they argue only that the harsh conditions on the planet do not necessarily preclude life. On earth, they point out, organisms have managed to thrive in environments ranging from the icy wastes of Antarctica to the windblown summits of high mountains...