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...summer that Americans spent lazing or working or planning vacations, the twin vehicles, dubbed Spirit and Opportunity, have traveled 137 million miles and 91 million miles, respectively (with 166 million and 192 million more to go), on their way to touchdowns on nearly opposite sides of the Red Planet...
...golf carts and fairly stuffed with instruments--including a bristle of cameras atop an almost 5-ft. antenna mast that will provide an eye-level view of the terrain, as opposed to the shin-level view Pathfinder provided. Like their predecessor, they will be visiting areas of the planet that scientists believe were once deluged with water, precisely the kind of spots extraterrestrial organisms would, at least in theory, love. If Mars ever harbored life, the 90 or more days Spirit and Opportunity will spend prospecting in these spots may turn up the geological evidence...
...around from empty movie theaters to dumpy motels ultimately becomes the story of being able to move on in one's life. On the opposite scale, R. Sikoryak pulls off another of his perfect-pitch satires, this time of Tintin, Herge's adventuring "boy reporter." "Prisoners of the Red Planet" finds Tim-Tim stranded on Mars where his can-do attitude encounters an untenable circumstance of radiation, insanity and death. "SPX 2003," with its wild variety of styles and stories by mostly unheard of artists, is like an AAA farm team for the majors. There are a few hits...
Night after night, the red beacon shining in the southern sky has been growing brighter. Residents of even light-polluted metropolises, whose experience with celestial lights is usually limited to the moon, Venus and airplanes, will get their best view yet of the planet Mars. That's because on Wednesday, Aug. 27, the Red Planet will approach to within about 34,600,000 miles of Earth. It hasn't come that close--and thus hasn't been as bright--for almost 60,000 years, the better part of human history. And if you happen to miss that historic night...
There's no need to persuade people that it's worth a look. The Red Planet has fired the human imagination ever since Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli thought he saw artificial canals on its surface in 1877. (The canals were debunked as an illusion in the early 1900s...