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...probably offer a first look at actual Martian water ice rather than the dry water scars of millenniums past. To do that, the lander will use a digging arm and a suite of mineralogy instruments to hunt for salts, clays and other signs that liquid water is manipulating the soil. If Phoenix Lander hits its targets, this will be a big step toward later missions that will search for microscopic organic life. "Pay attention," Smith says, "because it's the polar region. No one's ever been there, and it's going...
More missions to Mars are anticipated, including one that would return soil samples, possibly shedding fresh light on Martian life and allowing NASA to rehearse the round-trip skills that would be necessary for a manned mission. And even as the new ships are readied, some of the great historic ones are still in flight. Voyagers 1 and 2, launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer planets, are now on their way out of the solar system, with the last breaths of solar wind at their backs. Remarkably, NASA may be able to stay in touch with...
...Tibet can exist internally, in spirit and imagination, even if it is barely visible on the map, the Dalai Lama has been suggesting to Palestinians, Kurds and Uighurs that they can maintain a cultural community even if they have lost their territory. Communities can be linked not by common soil so much as by common ground, a common foundation...
...Ministry of External Affairs says India has granted exile to Tibetans on the condition that they not indulge in political activities on Indian soil, so the government is well within its rights to halt the march. But the Tibetan community says the crackdown is about politics, not maintaining social order. "We assume that there is pressure from Beijing," says Tsering. "It's very disappointing and upsetting to us." Tsering and another Tibetan activist said that an Indian journalist had e-mailed them claiming that New Delhi has asked Indian media not to cover the protests or at least to downplay...
TELLING THE TRUE-TH? In the 1970s, the government of Italy began demanding that American museums return art that they believed had been looted from Italian soil. But for years, domestic museums refused to comply unless Italy could provide substantial evidence that these items had been acquired through illicit means...