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...scientists searching for life on Mars. Even if the Viking Landers, which are scheduled to visit Mars in 1976, find no evidence of life on the planet's dry and frigid terrain, the Antarctic discovery holds out hope that living organisms-perhaps dormant-might still exist beneath the Martian surface...
...solar system on missions of planetary exploration. NASA announced that Pioneer 11, already three-quarters of the way to Jupiter, will proceed to Saturn and provide the first close-up look at the ringed planet. From Mars, an orbiting Soviet spacecraft sent back new, detailed views of the Martian surface. At week's end, fresh from its reconnaissance of cloud-shrouded Venus, Mariner 10, now nearing Mercury, began transmitting its first pictures of the small planet that is closest...
...other Soviet Mars probes did not fare so well. Another intended orbiter went shooting by the planet, apparently because of trouble with its braking rocket. A third ejected a landing capsule that missed the planet completely. Another lander, fired from the fourth spacecraft, entered the Martian atmosphere but mysteriously stopped sending signals as it descended. (One theory: it may have been destroyed by the planet's high winds.) Before the signals ceased, Soviet scientists determined that the Martian atmosphere contains "several times" more water than expected. That finding was particularly interesting to NASA, which plans to send...
Earlier reports had indicated that both were scheduled to land and possibly photograph the surface. Mars 4 and 5, on the other hand, were orbiters designed to relay data back to earth from the Martian terrain. Thus, the Russians may still be able to use their single successful orbiter, Mars 5, as a radio link if at least one of the landers succeeds in its assignment...
...Angeles Times's Paul Conrad, Wright is now one of the nation's most widely published editorial cartoonists. Whether he is shown carrying on both ends of a phone conversation (and listening in on earphones in the middle) or provoking hysterical laughter in a Martian seeking earth's leader, Wright's Nixon is an unvarying emblem of sinister paranoia or clownish ineptitude...