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...THIS WEEK'S COVER STORY Mission to Mars January 26, 2004 Issue Past Covers Mind & Body Jan. 19, 2004 ----------------- Howard Dean Jan. 12, 2004 ----------------- Person of the Year Dec. 29, 2003 ----------------- Saddam Captured Dec. 22, 2003 ----------------- The Insurgents Dec. 15, 2003 ----------------- Kids and Drugs Dec. 8, 2003 ----------------- America and Bush Dec. 1, 2003 ----------------- Russell Crowe Nov. 24, 2003 ----------------- Jessica Lynch...
Dapper Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was always a man with a mission--even if it was long shrouded in obscurity. Some 30 years ago, he allegedly stole blueprints for enriching uranium from the top-secret Dutch lab where he worked. For decades, his team in Pakistan labored behind heavily guarded walls to produce enough of the fuel to make A-bombs. In 1998 he watched proudly as Pakistan detonated its first nuclear devices beneath the scorched desert hills of Baluchistan, shocking an unsuspecting world. A public hero at last to exultant countrymen, he was hailed throughout the Muslim world...
Before Spirit can actually start to dig in the Martian sandbox, however, there are a few technical obstacles to overcome. Last week, mission managers discovered a worrisome spike in temperature within the guts of the rover during the Martian daytime, requiring them to periodically power down some instruments to give the machinery brief cooling naps. An electrical surge in the main antenna also caused concern, but so far it appears to have been a harmless hiccup...
...would still be possible to drive over the bags, though that is a risky move since the fabric may have stiffened in the extreme Martian cold and could damage or interfere with the craft's solar panels. In either event, no one at J.P.L. is remotely calling these problems mission-enders--though no one expects the rover to be able to move off the lander much before the end of this week. "We have some very valuable assets on Mars," says J.P.L. director Charles Elachi. "Now is the time to be careful...
...looks like mud, but it can't be mud," says Steve Squyres, the mission's principal science investigator. "It holds together well. I'm not even prepared to speculate...