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Trouble also comes by sea in CBS's Threshold (Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.), but this time it's an alien invasion. A Navy vessel is visited by a spacecraft that resembles a shape-shifting Christmas ornament; the boat's surviving crew members have their DNA reprogrammed with alien code and turn evil. So Washington calls in Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino), a worst-case-scenario consultant, and assembles a team of eccentric scientists. The cast is startlingly good--there's also Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent) and Charles S. Dutton (Roc)--given that the actors have to deliver lines like...
...alienated teens imagine that they have a great secret destiny. The fantasy is actually true for the just-plain-alien teens of Roswell, who turn out to be refugees from a crashed spacecraft escaping an interstellar war. This 1999-2002 series lasted only about as long as high school does, but the final season shows why it is missed: it cut its high emotion with humor and grounded its sometimes loopy sci-fi adventure in the Romeo-Juliet affair between space boy Max (Jason Behr) and Earth girl Liz (Shiri Appleby). Ending in a graduation--what else?--the last...
...unusually sharp vision the imaging instruments will give the MRO, coupled with it's low, 190-mi. orbit - 20% closer than any of the other three spacecraft currently orbiting Mars - mean it will get the best look yet at Martian surface features, including possible shorelines left behind by vanished oceans or seas. The radar will also allow MRO to search the planet as a whole for minerals that form in the presence of water, and to determine where and how deeply subsurface ice may lie. Where there's ice and water, evidence of life - either extinct or ongoing - could also...
...Should the liftoff take place as planned, it will be another 15 months before the spacecraft settles into its low, circular orbit around Mars. After that, it will have a full two years to conduct its surveillance work - a long life for a robot ship, and one that should return a rich trove of science...
...seems the shuttle program will plod on. NASA has always stressed that all spacecraft--even the shuttles--are unproven machines. "It's different from a commercial plane," says Hale. "[This is] an experimental vehicle." After 24 years, two lost ships and another scare this week, it may be time to ask if it's still an experiment worth conducting. --Reported by Stefano Coledan/ Cape Canaveral, Deborah Fowler/Houston and Eric Roston/Washington