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...dampened the public's enthusiasm for things space-related. On the contrary: leading bookmaker William Hill says the event has sparked renewed interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The company has slashed odds on finding aliens from 500-1 to 100-1. Sunday's successful landing on the Martian surface by a U.S. rover makes the odds even better. See: Rush Hour on Mars...
...there is another threat that deserves immediate attention: the remote but scary possibility of accidental microbial contamination from space. In H.G. Wells’ original “War of the Worlds” (1897), the superior Martian invaders were defeated in the end by “the humblest thing that God in His wisdom put upon this Earth”—by microbes, who caused the defenseless Martians to catch colds...
...Finding Life on Mars The proximity of Mars to Earth [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 1] once again raised the question of whether there is life on the Red Planet. When the Soviet Union launched an unmanned probe to scout the Martian skies [July 18, 1988], we took the opportunity to remind readers that years ago, earlier space experts, including astronomer Carl Sagan, predicted that finding evidence of civilized life on Mars might be far more daunting than anyone had expected...
...attack helicopters what was once achieved by swords and spears. The next time Mars and Earth brush past each other, almost three centuries from now, either we will have driven ourselves to extinction as a species, or (more optimistically) human colonists will be able to look down from the Martian surface at a prominent blue Earth and marvel at how humankind finally managed to conquer its inner gods of war. ANTHONY SALM Keizer...
...twin spacecraft, looking for ones that present a minimum of obstacles and a maximum of potential clues to the all important question of whether water has existed on the planet. The rover Spirit is thus headed for a formation known as Gusev crater, about 15 south of the Martian equator. Orbital photography has mapped a sinuous, 559-mile channel that slices into Gusev from the southeast and looks for all the world like a riverbed. "The water should have cut through that crater and then ponded," says Crisp. Spirit's instruments will scrutinize the crater floor, looking for evidence...