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5 Aug 2012, 9:11 pm
It also turns on the MARDI descent imager. 10:29:45 PM: Descending at about 150 m/s, MSL crosses over the Martian horizon, passing out of view of Earth. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 12:32 pm
In its seven-minute descent, the Curiosity craft must brake from 13,200 miles per hour to a gentle stop on the Martian surface. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 2:31 am
Curiosity's descent stage will lower the enormous rover to the Martian surface on cables, then fly off to crash-land intentionally a safe distance away. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 2:30 pm
The rover is on a precise course for a landing beside a Martian mountain to begin 2 years of unprecedented scientific detective work. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 2:15 pm
" After a successful launch in November 2011, Curiosity is close to reaching its destination on the Martian surface. [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 5:31 am
There were some I wondered about, like The Martian Chronicles (adult?) [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 7:00 am
He gained his fame with his first novel, "The Martian Chronicles", from 1950. [read post]
10 Jun 2012, 3:55 pm
" It's an exciting frontier for biologists in part because of the recurring interest in the possibility that life has existed (or does exist) on Mars; the dry, volcanic Atacama is often compared to the Martian surface. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 2:05 pm
The American writer Ray Bradbury, author of the science-fiction and fantasy classics Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, passed on Wednesday, June 6, at the age of 91. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 1:31 pm
His Martians are not alien like Heinlein’s or futuristically evolved like Welles’s but a premodern people akin to the ancient Egyptians or American Indians (or a boy’s idealized conception of them), our superiors not technologically but spiritually. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 9:22 am
The science fiction-fantasy master spent his life conjuring such visions from his childhood dreams and Cold War fears, spinning tales of telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters and, in uncanny detail, the high-tech, book-burning future of “Fahrenheit 451. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 9:13 am
Instapundit says: "People are mostly talking about The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, but I liked Dandelion Wine. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 9:07 am
His work, which included the collection "The Martian Chronicles," made into a 1980 miniseries starring Rock Hudson and Gayle Hunnicutt, made science fiction fans out of many readers who would otherwise never have read such fare. [read post]
RAY BRADBURY HAS DIED. People are mostly talking about The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, b…
6 Jun 2012, 8:34 am
People are mostly talking about The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, but I liked Dandelion Wine. [read post]
10 May 2012, 5:46 pm
But that didn't prevent us from staring, open-mouthed, at the contrast between the Martian-red rockscape and the insolent blue of the ocean behind it. [read post]
4 May 2012, 9:32 pm
Or maybe for science fiction fans, Heinlein’s grok in that way the Martians do, you know eating the bodies of the dead. [read post]
1 May 2012, 7:15 am
Though we never got the promised jetpacks and the Martians were a bust, we do live in a time when genetic engineers use jellyfish genes to make mammals glow in the dark and nerds in southern Nevada kill people in Pakistan and Afghanistan with unmanned drones. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 4:30 am
On it, the title character presents a suspect, “The Man in the Martian Suit,” to the police sergeant for fingerprinting. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 2:30 pm
MAVEN is scheduled to launch in November 2013 and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:42 am
" Even if that were true, it doesn't seem very likely that he'd have the right guy here, given that criminals tend to be interested in keeping a lower profile than dressing up as a Martian might allow. [read post]
