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...goes according to plan, the Phobos probes will take off next summer for Mars. When they reach the Red Planet some 200 days and 118 million miles later, they will orbit for a time, taking data on solar physics. The first Phobos will match orbits with the moon for which it is named, a chunk of rock about 14 miles across believed by many astronomers to be an asteroid captured by Mars' gravity. The other will be a backup...
Phobos will glide between 98 and 260 ft. above the moon's surface -- "something similar to a cruise missile," quips Sagdeyev -- and drop an instrument-bearing minilander to record data on the moon's soil. One experiment involves a laser that will emit short bursts of energy, each vaporizing a square millimeter of surface into a cloud that can be analyzed by the probe's spectrometer. "You can pick up such exploded material from many different places," says Sagdeyev. "In the end you have a chemical map of the surface of Phobos -- if you are lucky...
...National Gallery in London, is the life-size kneeling figure of St. Francis in Meditation, painted at the height of Zurbaran's career, in the late 1630s. This is not the St. Francis of earlier legend, warbling to the birds of Assisi about Brother Sun and Sister Moon. Spanish Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries invented a new St. Francis, a death-haunted monk whose images would force the faithful to think about their own dissolution...
...WORST movie of all is the title piece, "Amazon Women on the Moon," a B-grade 1950s sci-fi disaster, whose plot can be deduced from its title. The film's accurate stone-age special effects (rockets hanging from wires, etc.) and sound problems are surpassed in ludicrousness only by the film's overt jingoism, sexism, materialism and xenophobia...
Ultimately, Amazon Women on the Moon may be as socially unredeemable as the television and the TV watchers it pokes fun at. Still, it is extremely funny and worth seeing, though perhaps one should wait until it comes out on videocassete in order to watch it where it would be most effective...