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Never mind the image of Mars as a dead and desolate world. The Red Planet has lately become one of the busiest little places in the solar system...
...TIME published planet Earth: An Illustrated History, a captivating visual journey of the world's sciences and unending beauty. Earth is for the living, said Jefferson, and this book is for you. And speaking of books, congratulations to TIME contributor and former correspondent Aravind Adiga, whose astonishing first novel about India, The White Tiger, won this year's Man Booker Prize...
...past decade has been something of a Martian era of space exploration. Since 1996, the U.S. alone has launched no fewer than nine spacecraft Marsward, and seven have arrived in one piece--an extraordinary success rate for a planet that historically had been a bit of a graveyard of failed missions. Currently, six ships--five American and one European--are at work on Mars, and a handful of others sleep peacefully on the surface or orbit silently above, their missions completed and their systems exhausted. While a lot of the work the spacecraft do is the quiet business of spelunking...
...Sept. 29, NASA announced that a laser instrument aboard the Phoenix lander, which touched down north of Mars' arctic circle last May, had spotted snow falling through the planet's frigid sky. Martian snowfall isn't like earthly snowfall; this descended from some 2.4 miles (4 km) up and appeared to vaporize before it reached the surface. Still, the picture that Phoenix is painting is of a meteorologically dynamic world, one not only with occasional flurries but also with clouds and fog forming at night in addition to the famed Martian winds...
...less from France. But what about France's contribution to energy efficiency in solar/laser and mechanical dynamo power expertise, not forgetting France's fashion expertise for thermal underwear, socks and gloves and a lightweight oversuit with shoe gloves. Keep innovating, guys. Your country needs you, and so does our planet. If you need further support, remember marathon runner Mavis Lindgren who, at 78, recorded a VO2 max equal to the average sedentary 20-year-old. Aerobic exercise rocks, and offers no-risk economies to the health service, and a longer active physical and mental working life. James Gooding, ENGLAND...