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When Mariner 9 arrived in the neighborhood of Mars last November, its TV cameras were thwarted by the billowing yellow dust clouds of a gigantic storm that obscured most of the surface of the Red Planet. Frustrated scientists and controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory began to despair that their spacecraft would ever fulfill its primary mission: mapping the surface of Mars. But by mid-January the Martian skies had cleared, and Mariner began sending back detailed pictures. Last week NASA released the latest group of Mariner photographs. Transmitted across more than 100 million miles of space...
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...cover story has given Wilhelm his best opportunity so far to indulge his addiction. As a science correspondent, he has covered several Gemini and Apollo flights for TIME as well as the death of three astronauts during a 1967 training exercise. Wilhelm found the scientists and the atmosphere at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, home of the Mariner program, different from the men and mood at Houston and Cape Kennedy...
...typical Southern California haze hung over Pasadena last week, but at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory there was much less concern about the local weather than about conditions on Mars, some 80 million miles away. As scientists monitored the pictures and scientific data being transmitted from Mariner 9, in its second week in orbit around the distant planet, Mars was still enshrouded in a raging dust storm. While apparently beginning to subside, the giant duster will probably obscure much of the surface for weeks to come. Faced with the growing possibility that the Martian skies will not clear up completely during...