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...that it landed in the best position, with its base petal on the ground. Scientists were also happy that the lander came within 12 miles of the target point and was healthy, with all electronic subsystems running. If all continues to go well, the 22-pound, six-wheeled Sojourner rover will begin creeping across the dusty Ares Vallis plain late tonight...
...approach the surface at 1pm EST at about 55 miles per hour, whereupon a bubble pack will absorb the brunt of the impact, sending the lander bouncing like a basketball up to the height of a four-story building until it settles safely on the planet surface. A small rover named Sojourner (24.5 inches long by 18.7 inches wide) will then emerge to study the planet's geological characteristics. Pathfinder will land at the dry mouth of an ancient channel called Ares Vallis. The site was picked for its relatively flat surface and the variety of rock and soil samples...
...consumptive Doc Holliday in Tombstone. On that night in Australia, says Noyce, "he was already acting the role of the Saint." Later Noyce and scriptwriter Wesley Strick trekked to South Africa, where Kilmer was shooting another film. "Let's go," the actor greeted them. He hopped into a Land Rover and, steering wheel in one hand, cigarette in the other, drove them madly across dirt roads to a distant campsite where he was living in a tent. Over a fire that evening Noyce asked Kilmer for his ideas about The Saint. "By the time he finished," Noyce recalls...
With the news and mystery of his son's death, Cosby left the studio, climbed into his Range Rover and headed back to his town house in Manhattan. Mobbed by reporters camped outside his home, the actor refused all comment save one. He turned toward the cameras and microphones and said, "He was my hero...
...from Princeton. With a fast and exuberant laugh, he has a passion for subjects ranging from technology (he heads Microsoft's advanced-research group) to dinosaurs (he's about to publish a paper on the aerodynamics of the apatosaurus tail) to cooking. He sometimes moonlights as a chef at Rover's, a French restaurant in Seattle...