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ROSWELL: As every UFO enthusiast knows, an alien spacecraft putatively crashed in the desert near this New Mexico town in 1947 - and the U.S. military tried to cover it up. At the Roswell International UFO Museum, visitors can examine hundreds of autopsy drawings, sworn affidavits and newspaper reports from the time of the crash. And pick up a tasty Alien Cookie Kit in the gift shop for $7.95. AVEBURY: For two decades, the fields surrounding this English village have become a hot spot for crop circles (pictured) - said to be crafted (at night, presumably) by artistic visitors from another planet...
That possibility, plus Gusev's relatively smooth, obstacle-free terrain, is why the crater presented such a tempting target--and why NASA scientists are so thrilled that the spacecraft made it. "If you were looking for a place to land in the U.S., geologists would land in the Grand Canyon and engineers would land [in a plain] like Kansas," says paleontologist Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover long-range-planning team. "Gusev gives us both a congenial site for roving and still has a high probability of getting to good outcroppings...
Perhaps the most interesting spot on the surface is one the spacecraft created. As the bubble-wrapped craft bounced to a landing, it scuffed the ground at a point just south of where the rover now rests. The loose red soil it cleared away has revealed a dark patch of what resembles mud--though that's impossible on the entirely waterless floor of Gusev...
After a hiatus of a dozen years, during which neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union mounted missions to Mars, a spacecraft is once again on its way, opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series of increasingly sophisticated unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year 2010 ... While the American space program has been crippled since the Challenger disaster in January 1986, Soviet cosmonauts have been gaining...
...least not until we are sure that our spacecraft are worthy of carrying humans into space and back. Till then the robots can do the job. Also, why not invest the same money to create employment, remove poverty and hunger, promote education and help humanity? Vidur Gupta Texas...