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...that with its tanks full, MRO is one of the biggest ships ever hurled towards Mars. Part of the reason for the heft is the suite of instruments it carries, including the largest diameter telescopic camera ever sent to another planet; ground-penetrating radar able to look beneath the Martian surface; and a climate sounder, able to study the atmosphere in both visible and invisible spectra. The ship will also carry a new-generation navigational camera and communications system, to be field-tested for the first time...
...unusually sharp vision the imaging instruments will give the MRO, coupled with it's low, 190-mi. orbit - 20% closer than any of the other three spacecraft currently orbiting Mars - mean it will get the best look yet at Martian surface features, including possible shorelines left behind by vanished oceans or seas. The radar will also allow MRO to search the planet as a whole for minerals that form in the presence of water, and to determine where and how deeply subsurface ice may lie. Where there's ice and water, evidence of life - either extinct or ongoing - could also...
...comfort programming can make studio accountants uncomfortable. Starsky and Hutch did O.K. as a Ben Stiller--Owen Wilson romp last year, but many TV blowups--like The Mod Squad, My Favorite Martian and Steve Martin's Sgt. Bilko--tanked. (Then again, Martin bringing his spin to Inspector Clouseau in this summer's remake of The Pink Panther--that has us smiling already...
...Mars Invaded the Earth, they incinerate an entire family and flush their ashes down the swimming-pool drain. In The War of the Worlds, the aliens turn their deadly rays on everything in sight. "Welcome to California!" say three friendly Chamber of Commerce types as they walk toward the Martian craft. Zap! More ashes. A minister tries to soothe them with the 23rd Psalm. Zap again! Luckily (or unluckily, as Vegaites might view it), they had not got their flu shots before they left home, and they succumb to our microbe-rich...
...Crash begins, people of Hispanic, Korean, African, Caucasian, and Middle-Eastern descent verbally tear holes in each other—a Martian could pick up on the racial tension...