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...Koreans, who in recent years have seized pop-film primacy from Hong Kong, make the most of their borrowings from other cultures. Jang Jun Hwan's Save the Green Planet! has a paranoid science-fiction premise: that aliens are to take over Earth at the next lunar eclipse and that, our deranged hero believes, they use their hair to broadcast telepathic signals. You've heard this before, possibly from someone muttering next to you on a bus. But then the madness escalates: for a while you think the movie is going crazy; then you realize that the insanity is contagious...
...target of From Nothing to Zero?a grim compilation of letters written in captivity, plaintive testaments and fierce counterblasts of a wretched Untermensch that came to Australia in leaky boats or suffocating containers looking for a lucky break they were almost always denied. Though normally a travel publisher, Lonely Planet has lent its worldly-wise imprimatur to this book in order to give the issue greater currency...
...planet last week passed closer to Earth than it has in almost 60,000 years. Even as Spirit and Opportunity speed toward their wintertime rendezvous, the European Space Agency has a probe of its own on the way, a stationary lander expected to touch down on Mars on Christmas Day. The Japanese, back in 1998, launched an orbiter, which, after a circuitous route through the solar system, should arrive sometime in December...
...will fling open a trio of websites that will track the surface explorations as they unfold. Whatever the spacecraft learn, we'll learn along with them--and it could turn out to be plenty. "We have on these rovers so many capabilities that have never been present on another planet," says Steve Squyres, the missions' principal investigator. "I guarantee you, we're going to find new things...
Such plodding travel could yield remarkable science. NASA geologists sifted through 185 possible landing sites for the twin spacecraft, looking for ones that present a minimum of obstacles and a maximum of potential clues to the all important question of whether water has existed on the planet. The rover Spirit is thus headed for a formation known as Gusev crater, about 15º south of the Martian equator. Orbital photography has mapped a sinuous, 559-mile channel that slices into Gusev from the southeast and looks for all the world like a riverbed. "The water should have cut through that crater...