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...their journey. A busy schedule provides some distraction. The space travelers perform scientific experiments, practice taking shelter against solar-flare radiation, tend vegetables in their hydroponic greenhouses, exercise vigorously for several hours each day and tap into digital libraries for music, light reading matter and courses in Martian meteorology and geology...
...future Mars odysseys. Scientists and engineers in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union are involved in the design of complex unmanned craft that will travel to the planet. Some American scientists are even conducting tests on a model of the robotic vehicle that may one day rove the Martian surface. Others are considering the ships that will carry human crews to Mars, the orbiting space station needed to launch them, the size and safety of the crews and the most practical routes through space. Though some formidable problems remain, many Soviet and U.S. experts see no insurmountable obstacles...
...network conveying water from the polar ice caps to the parched cities of an arid and dying planet. Lowell's observations and musings, in turn, inspired British novelist H.G. Wells to write The War of the Worlds, a dramatic account of an invasion of the earth by octopus-like Martians. In 1938 a radio adaptation of that novel by another man named Welles -- Orson, that is -- panicked many Americans who believed that a real Martian invasion was under...
Even after the mighty 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope revealed no evidence at all of networks of straight lines or other manifestations of intelligent life on Mars, the fascination continued. Fredric Brown's novel Martians, Go Home, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, and the popular Buck Rogers comic strip all involved encounters with Martians of various sizes, shapes and consistencies...
...fascinating landscape: towering volcanoes, great canyons, lava flows and a multitude of craters in the red- hued plains. What excited scientists and Mars buffs the most, however, was the unmistakable traces of dry riverbeds and deltas etched into the rock, evidence that water had once flowed freely on the Martian surface. Had life evolved on Mars while water was still ample? And might living organisms still exist there, perhaps in microscopic form...