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...scattering of small craters within the larger Gusev Crater are attractive to mission planners as well. Such secondary-impact pits do geologists' excavation work for them, gouging away upper layers of soil and rock and offering a free peek at what lies below. There appears to be an especially inviting population of small craters to the east and southeast of the rover, providing one more reason for Spirit to head that way when it dismounts. "We've got a capable machine, but we can't dig 20-ft. holes with it," says Squyres. "The way to do that...
...blasted by incoming meteorites, and then further eroded by millions of years of winds. It will take some doing to find the rocks that have been least affected by all that. Making a choice and then getting to a prize sample could take more than five days. On a mission that may last no more than 90 days, that's a lot of time. "You've got to think hard about where you're going," says Knoll...
...This year, Philips and European upstart Mission will introduce TVs built into mirrors (the TV disappears when the power is turned off). The design is aimed at hotels but will soon be available for sale to the public...
Elliott was wrong in arguing that Wolfowitz's memo would cause a diplomatic row just before presidential envoy James Baker III visited Europe on a mission to reduce Iraq's debt to other countries. The memo was clearly a hardball negotiating tactic. Faced with this threat, France and Germany finally relented and agreed to forgive some of Iraq's debt. In the end, the U.S. will reconsider the policy on contracts in Iraq. Apparently, Elliott knows nothing of real-world negotiations. MORGAN CONRAD Montara, Calif...
After a hiatus of a dozen years, during which neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union mounted missions to Mars, a spacecraft is once again on its way, opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series of increasingly sophisticated unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year 2010 ... While the American space program has been crippled since the Challenger disaster in January 1986, Soviet cosmonauts have been gaining...