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...looks like mud, but it can't be mud." Dr. Steven W. Squyres, scientist with NASA's Spirit mission to Mars, after viewing pictures of the planet's surface. The mission's rovers will scour the surface for evidence of water...
Last week, the first color photos of Mars, courtesy of the Spirit craft, caused great excitement among the scientific community and the public at large. The larger purpose of the mission is to search for signs of water on Mars, which could mean the planet supported life at one point. President Bush will announce later this week a plan to resume missions to the Moon and send humans to Mars within 20 years, with international help in this goal. Such a plan is likely to be tremendously expensive, and some argue that manned space missions are unnecessary with the level...
...Sometimes in matters with such grand goals we forget to ask the simplest questions. In this case it would be WHY? With a planet already inhabited with millions suffering from disease, hunger, poverty, and illiteracy, why would we spend billions to confirm Mars' atmospheric and sedimentary traits? It's red and full of dirt; that's great to know. How about that money be spent to feed people or provide health coverage for those who can't afford it, or better yet, lets teach people to read. Now those are grand goals and ideas which we should be exploring. This...
While the Spirit rover combs the surface of Mars looking for clues of past life, we're poring over the sharpest photos ever seen of the Red Planet. NASA's website has struggled to keep up with public demand, and the Mars mission is clearly a victory, especially considering the Columbia tragedy less than one year ago. Today we chat with TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger about what it all means...
...when human trust is a part of the system, the potential for errors on a grand scale increases. 2003 saw one of the most respected journalistic institutions on the planet--the New York Times--confess that it had published dozens of stories by a young reporter, Jayson Blair, that were completely or partly made up. Fact checking hadn't caught his deceptions; editors who had warned about him were ignored; what seem in retrospect to be glaring inconsistencies in his stories were regarded as true and valid by some of the biggest names in the field. Other stories that seemed...