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...results are starting to show. In September the Mars Global Surveyor, already en route to the planet, will settle into orbit and begin a two-year program of photographing and mapping the terrain below. Over the next eight years, up to eight more ships will follow. As these new probes are heading Marsward, others will be dispatched to places as familiar as the moon and as remote as Pluto. "In the next 10 years," says NASA administrator Daniel Goldin, "we'll be flying by, orbiting, landing, roving and bringing back samples from every critical planetary body in the solar system...
...just after 4 p.m. when the images began to appear on mission control monitors. They were, by any measure, astounding: scrub plains without the scrub, prairie land without the prairie grass. The eye, schooled to scout such familiar terrain for equally familiar landmarks, scanned briefly for cactus until common sense reminded the viewer that there would be none. "The little engine that could," said Manning after the first clutch of pictures appeared, "did." Added Muirhead: "We've scored a major home run here...
...July 20, lander 1 separated from its orbiting mother ship. Using retrorockets, deploying a parachute and finally firing three descent engines, it bumped gently onto a rock-covered slope on the planet's southern hemisphere. Forty-five days later, the Viking 2 lander plopped down on more rugged terrain far to the north...
...Sojourner control console at J.P.L. is equipped with a 24-in. video monitor, a 3-D mouse and a set of stereoscopic goggles. Before the rover leaves the lander, its camera will scan the terrain and transmit what it sees to J.P.L., where software will combine the images into a three-dimensional vista. Donning the goggles, Cooper and other scientists will then scout the virtual riverbed. When they find a likely place for Sojourner to visit, they'll start up the car and, using the mouse, tell it where...
FORT DAVIS, Texas: An aerial search turned up no sign of the last remaining Republic of Texas fugitive, tentatively identified as 21-year-old Richard Keyes. Department of Public Safety officials have scaled back their ground search for Keyes out of fear that the Davis Mountains' rough terrain would make it impossible to rescue any injured personnel. Authorities have still not given a positive identification for the fugitive killed Monday during a brief gunbattle, saying only that he is a "middle-aged white male." That suggests the dead man is fugitive Mike Matson, a 48-year-old resident of California...