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Susan Orlean has been to so many countries, she’s run out of pages in her passport. “I have so many frequent flier miles, I could go to Mars,” she says. Given her nomadic nature, it’s a surprise Rover has beat her to the red planet. Courtesy of all these racked-up miles, she and her husband made their honeymoon flight to China without paying a penny...
...dozen wheels on soil." CHRIS LEWICKI, NASA flight director, after Opportunity, the second Mars Rover, joined its companion, Spirit, on the planet's surface...
...have had a very serious anomaly on the vehicle." PETER THEISINGER, project manager of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on the sudden interruption in communication from Spirit, the Mars rover...
Planets and Politics As a robot rover transmits striking shots of Mars, Bush calls for human exploration of the Red Planet. Is the President's proposal just an election-year gimmick...
Molecular biologist Rob Ferl at the University of Florida wants to conduct similar experiments with mustard seeds. "The first generation of experiments would be enclosed in something like the rover," he says. "You'd use a mechanical arm to scoop up dirt and capture sunlight with light tubes...