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...time of the crash. And pick up a tasty Alien Cookie Kit in the gift shop for $7.95. AVEBURY: For two decades, the fields surrounding this English village have become a hot spot for crop circles (pictured) - said to be crafted (at night, presumably) by artistic visitors from another planet. Added bonus: Stonehenge is under an hour away. BONNYBRIDGE: If it's a close encounter you're after, go to the UFO capital of the world. Over the past decade there have been an incredible - some might say unlikely - 60,000 UFO sightings in and around this small Scottish town...
SPACE: The Mars rover scopes out the Red Planet...
...real news, however, was made on the Red Planet. The 90-mile-wide Gusev Crater--located about 15° south of the planet's equator--resembles a dry lake bed, one that could easily have been drenched with water from what appears to be a 559-mile-long river channel entering it from the southeast. If there was once Martian water, it should have ponded there. If there was once Martian life, it might have called this great lake home...
...doing big parts in small pictures. Ever reliable, never anyone's idea of a movie star, he has soldiered for Steven Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, played a character known as Pig Vomit in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic books about his grim life and glum times, was also going to be in the movie...
...opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series of increasingly sophisticated unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year 2010 ... While the American space program has been crippled since the Challenger disaster in January 1986, Soviet cosmonauts have been gaining invaluable experience aboard the Salyut and Mir space stations. And though U.S. astronauts are scheduled to return to space this September, NASA administrator James Fletcher concedes that...