Word: planet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...boost with last week's discovery of fresh signs of water on Mars. It was made by the Mars Global Surveyor, a spacecraft that has been in Martian orbit since 1997 and finally winked out only last month. Before it did, it produced exhaustive photographic maps of the planet, including shots of tens of thousands of now dry gullies that were almost certainly carved by water. Most of those channels haven't changed over time, but at two of the sites investigators found what appear to be the tracks of flows that occurred within just the past seven years...
...once seemed, and for many space scientists, that's a good enough reason to go. Lack of funding or political will may yet scuttle the entire audacious moon-Mars enterprise. But for now at least, it appears that a human species that has kept itself confined to the home planet for the past 34 years may once again begin moving stepwise through the solar system...
...come. American, Continental, Northwest and United are vying for U.S. government approval to launch new daily service to China next spring. A round-trip full-fare ticket from New York City to Beijing runs about $11,000, making it one of the most profitable routes on the planet. Additional competition may lower the price a bit--just not too much, the airlines hope...
FRAGILE EARTH Massive change is the theme of this book, which documents the climate transformations the planet has been undergoing in recent years, many of them undesirable, most a result of human actions. As you might expect from a book assembled to convince you that something very unpleasant is afoot, the images are sobering. All the same, there's a considerable wow factor in the aerial and space photography the editors frequently use to illustrate their points about melting ice caps, advancing deserts and rising sea levels. They have a particular thing for discouraging compare-and- contrast shots of sights...
...irony, of course, is that Geraldo is probably the least cool person on the planet; by going along with the gag, Wexler proved to be one of the few politicians in this country with a genuine sense of humor...