Word: planet
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...centuries, in fiction as well as in fact, men have dreamed about going to Mars and exploring the Red Planet. Last week, on July 20, at 8:12 a.m. (E.D.T.)-seven years to the day after the first men walked on the moon-this dream became a reality. "Touchdown! We have touchdown!" shouted Project Manager James S. Martin Jr. as he watched the consoles at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Only 17 sec. behind schedule, the lander was safely down on Mars' Chryse Planitia (golden plains...
...small rocks of varying sizes. At J.P.L., 212 million miles away, scientists could clearly see the rows of rivets on the lander's foot, late (Martian) afternoon shadows and-extending from rocks-dirt tails that might have been formed by the strong winds that frequently scour the planet's surface...
...illusion of standing on the Martian plain became even more vivid when scientists produced a color picture that confirmed the appropriateness of Mars' longtime sobriquet of Red Planet. The soil seemed to consist of a fine-grained reddish material interspersed with small blue-black or blue-green patches. Many of the rocks were also coated with a reddish stain, strongly suggesting the presence of iron that had rusted in the presence of atmospheric or waterbound oxygen. Other rocks, blue-green and opalescent, reminded some scientists of copper ore. After correcting the color values on the photograph, scientists decided that...
Freaks, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30, and Forbidden Planet, 5:45, 8:45, ends today...
...other hand, a test proves positive-and is confirmed by repeated experiments-it might mark man's most momentous discovery. For if any life, no matter how simple, has evolved on a planet so different from the earth, then it almost certainly must have arisen on countless planets orbiting sunlike stars in billions of galaxies throughout the universe. Man will know at last that he is not a cosmic freak, that he is not alone...