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...life teemed upon the Red Planet once upon a millennium, it wouldn't have lacked for H20. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which pulls the strings on the Mars Global Surveyor satellite, now reports that Earth's neighbor shows the first clear evidence of oceans and widespread thermal activity in its early history -- both crucial elements in any sort of Martian genesis...
...signs of a hydrothermal system found by the Surveyor hint at a thicker, more Earth-like atmosphere during the planet's first couple billion years. High temperatures may also be one reason the planet is now red. The Greeks thought the Martian color meant war and destruction; Surveyor may end up proving it means creation...
...only Clinton but the entire planet is facing a hard truth. There is little that can stop nations willing to swallow international condemnation in order to obtain the weapons of mass death they deem vital to their national security or just their national prestige. Unfortunately history remembers the bombs that go off, not the ones that...
John Romero, creator of Doom and Quake computer games: "The creature in Aliens. There's just so much mystery: Does it rule its home planet, or is it a cockroach in the evolutionary chain of an ancient, superdeveloped world? The sheer terror this monster can cause is overwhelmingly savage...
Given the delays and cost overruns, space junkies hoping to book a weekend flight to the International Space Station for those great views of the home planet may have to wait. Meanwhile, Kodak and NASA are offering the next best thing over the Web. Next month they will begin selling digital photos shot by real U.S. astronauts from space shuttles, like this one of Lake Michigan. Choose from some 500 images, $14 to $30 apiece, at earth.jsc.nasa.gov