How To Use Martian In A Sentence
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The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
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The mission will send a lander and a rover to the red planet to carry out exobiology and geophysical analysis of the Martian environment.
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That creepy old retired nun with the rheumy face of a Martian had locked him in a closet in the basement.
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Crism also will map the geology, composition, and stratigraphy of various Martian surface features.
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Further tests by the Phoenix lander found traces of a substance called perchlorate in the Martian soil.
Signs of the Times
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The same materials, thrown into the Martian atmosphere by strong winds, give the Martian sky a pinkish color.
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The Martian meteorite crashes through the Earth's atmosphere - a blazing fireball.
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Not only are Martian volcanoes huge, they are surprisingly complex.
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The rover recently examined a rock named ‘Wishstone,’ which contains significant deposits of phosphorous that may have been left behind from water percolating up through the Martian surface.
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Under certain conditions of observation, the really complex Martian details appear as a réseau of fine lines.
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Whether it will be truly Martian, of Earth origin, or from elsewhere promises to be one of the central exobiological mysteries of our time.
Archive 2006-08-01
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So, I'm still processing the news of the discovery of hard evidence of an enormous lake that existed in the Martian Shalbatana Vallis region some 3.4 billion years ago, when I get word of an exciting new herbivorous Chinese ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis.
"This flood will swallow all you've left behind."
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Strangely I must admit I am urged to claim that it is the martian manhunter who can look like anyone.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A peak at tomorrows “comic”
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Anyway, this all goes to show how chowderheaded the Martians really are.
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All the recent discoveries about extremophiles, and especially those living in ice, raise the possibility that living creatures could remain in an arctic-like permafrost just below the Martian surface, one that changes from frozen to semiliquid with the seasons.
First Contact
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The idea of bringing physical samples of Mars back to Earth has raised serious concerns about the possibility of contaminating the Earth's biosphere with an unknown Martian organism.
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Reading is memorized with the aid of murmur, mouthing the words subvocally as one turns the text over in one's memory; both Quintilian and Martianus Capella stress how murmur accompanies meditation.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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I sat and played a sweet guitar while Martians grokked me from afar
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Two Other Versions of Janis Ian’s “Welcome Home”
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You can get lots of interesting special effect shots of Mike the Martian killing innocent policemen with his mind-powers, or shots of curvaceous starlets in a various states of undress which is basically all the book has in it.
MIND MELD: Stories Hollywood Should Film
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In the dead silence of the thin Martian atmosphere, I could hear the life support system of my environmental pack whine as it struggled to remove the excess heat, moisture, and carbon dioxide from my spacesuit.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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“Planet Killer” is an astronomical murder mystery set aboard the Martian i.e., human starship MSV Procyon as it is dispatched by Martian Space Force on its maiden voyage in the year 2191 to a destination called the Coalsack.
Archive 2009-02-01
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I will go ahead and pay their stinking ransom so that I can keep my "earthlink" email addess, but the foul taste of Martian cyber torture will not leave my craw for a very very long time.
BEWARE THE EARTHLINKS
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The Martian armada is headed for Earth – and Invincible is the only thing that stands in their way!
Image Comics for December 2006 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Scientists studied the rover landing site images to determine the likely reflectance properties of Mars Polar Lander's parachute and the blast zone created on the Martian surface by Mars Polar Lander's retrorockets.
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These facts mean that the Martian day and night have about the same lengths as ours.
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For example ‘lunar geology’ and ‘martian geology’ have now ousted their more abstruse equivalents ‘selenology’ and ‘areology’.
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Thus the known points of the Martian orbit were colligated by Kepler using the conception of an elliptical curve.
William Whewell
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WASHINGTON - Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter Martian past.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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Orson Welles managed to convince many Americans that they were being invaded by Martians.
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We were confronted by an almost Martian environment of stark rock in a wide assortment of hues and a silence completely unnatural to our modern world of beeps, buzzes and designer cell phone rings.
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Fans of Ray Bradbury and his The Martian Chronicles (1950) will not be disappointed with the publication of The Martian Chronicles: the Definitive Edition (late 2009) by Subterranean Press and PS Publishing, which recently acquired the rights to co-publish this long-delayed book.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The images are crystal clear because it is now spring in the frozen wastes of the Martian poles.
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We can relight the exciting parts of our space science program, including Martian sample returns, an expanded life search and the building of sensible and economical astrophysics telescopes.
Rick Tumlinson: The Senate Launch System - Destiny, Decision, and Disaster
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This capability will serve both to relay detailed findings of the instruments on the orbiter and enable data relay from other landers on the Martian surface to Earth.
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Caption: Mosaic of Phoenix lander footpad and blocks of water ice dubbed “Snow Queen” cleared of topsoil by descent rockets as spacecraft touched down near the frigid Martian North Pole on May 25, 2008.
If Phoenix Arises, Science could flow quickly | Universe Today
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They suggest that liquid in the Martian crust was heated when the molten rock or magma rose to the surface.
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For instance, MEX was the first spacecraft to detect methane in Mars' atmosphere and was also the first in discovering Martian sub-surface water, both raising provocative questions regarding the potential for life on the Red Planet.
Michael Yarbrough: Behind the Scenes: European Space Operations Centre
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One of the interesting inclusions is a scientific article by Russian astrophysicist Shklovsky, who suggested that the Martian moon Phobos was artificial, because it was light-weight and had an unusual orbit.
Moon shots
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For years Martians were imagined as the stuff of nightmares - bug-eyed monsters, ravening warlords or advanced experimenters on humans.
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To think that the martian bacteria were very similar to our own is also a mind boggler!
New Findings On Alan Hills Meteorite Point to Microbial Life | Universe Today
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While the average temperature on Mars is about - 55C, Martian surface temperatures range from as little as - 133C at the winter pole to almost 27C on the dayside during summer.
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The barrel separates from the brightly colored, Marvin Martian base as a retractable roller ball.
Boing Boing
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The rover could reach the Martian surface as early as Wednesday morning.
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Looking back, I saw the other Martians advancing with gigantic strides down the riverbank from the direction of Chertsey.
The War of The Worlds
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Martians have developed practically all the areas of their brains - all the paranormal faculties - that are still latent for part of the earthlings.
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Crystal chemical aspects of the Mg-sulfate hydrate mineral kieserite, which has been identified on the Martian surface.
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The debate over the likelihood of liquid Martian water flows on.
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Space skills will be valuable and firms and people with experience on the Moon will be well able to help develop cislunar and Martian systems.
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The Moon has no atmosphere; the Martian atmosphere is highly rarefied.
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I marvelled at the imaginative energy of the Martian enterprise, at its visionary and dogged inventiveness.
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After successful test runs, both rovers are preparing to turn their instruments on nearby targets on the Martian surface.
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Martian thinks this is polite language, but the word forgery is much more concise and to the point, and he finds an excellent example of this described by Joseph McCabe in "The Forgery of the Old Testament.
The Necessity of Atheism
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They took him out of my field of vision, presumably for suctioning and apgar scoring, though truth be told, they could have been selling him to Martians for all I would have known about it.
2008 March « A Bird’s Nest
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All the bones were disarticulated, but looked as though they'd come from Martian analogs of Late Paleozoic sarcopterygians and temnospondyls.
One of those WoW things.
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One reason for the current Martian invasion is that the planet is currently so close to the Earth.
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On the domestic front, their idealistic Ward ‘n June Cleaver fantasy may have been conservative while we were still in spitting distance of the 50’s, but at this point it makes about as much sense as trying to turn society Martian.
Think Progress » Bachmann: Bill Clinton Is Trying To ‘Celebrate’ The Oklahoma City Bombing And ‘Take [Me] Out’
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I do strongly think that Martian colonies will exist, enabled by spaceships built in orbit from the resources gleaned from the Moon.
Latest NASA Administrator Speculation - NASA Watch
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The Martian atmosphere contains only tiny amounts of water.
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It is highly unlikely that it would BE a fossil "crinoid" for the simple a priori reason that Martian flora and fuana assuming they existed would necessarily have followed a completely separate course of evolution from earth species.
Posthuman Blues
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The jarosite group minerals have received increasing attention since the discovery of jarosite on the martian surface by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Mars Today Top Stories
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Howbeit, there is an emphasis in the expression, which is not to be neglected: for as it is observed by Chrysostom, as containing an auxesis (ouchi ton mē hamartanonta monon legei alla ton mēde gnonta hamartian), and by sundry learned persons after him; so those who desire to learn the excellency of the grace of God herein, will have an impression of a sense of it on their minds from this emphatical expression, which the Holy Ghost chose to make use of unto that end; and the observation of it is not to be despised.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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The 22 tiny patches of Martian surface revealed a barren landscape pitted with craters, like the Moon.
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And then it was ringing midnight, and they were in the Martian time slip, the thirty-nine-and-a half-minute gap between 12: 00: 00 and 12: 00: 01; when all the clocks went blank or stopped moving.
Friday Morning Time Slip « Gerry Canavan
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The shuttle climbed through the thin Martian atmosphere, and headed toward the harbor in orbit.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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The problem lies in the virtual absence of water in the Martian atmosphere.
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This is followed by woody shrubs, such as Adenaria floribunda, Alchornea castanaefolia, and Salix martiana, then by early successional trees, such as Annona hypoglauca, Astrocaryum jauari, and Cecropia latiloba.
Iquitos varzea
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Later, the robot field geologist then took about a dozen images of the Sun to catch the eclipse by the Martian moon, Phobos before shutting down again for a little nap.
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Maybe graupel will freeze the garden pressed upon by many things: six people in the tub, the toy-maker's poison gluing hands to the wall, owls shooting us with Bald Martian Eyes and not flying away.
The Awkwardtist
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Here, then, is a fact that our Martian (but few Americans) might notice: in almost nine years of futile and brutal war in Afghanistan and more than seven years of the same in Iraq, the U.S. has filled metaphorical tower upon tower with the exceedingly unmetaphorical bodies of civilian innocents, via air attacks, checkpoint shootings, night raids, artillery and missile fire, and in some cases, the direct act of murder.
Tom Engelhardt: Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq
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After mixing the soil with perchlorate and heating it, they found that the gases produced were carbon dioxide and traces of chloromethane and dichloromethane - just like the gases released by the chemical reactions after the Viking landers heated the Martian soil more than three decades ago.
BBC Ouch! Blog
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Like many Martians, he was braced upright on his lower tentacles by hoops and buckles around his bladdery body, so that he had roughly a human form, over which lay a strange loose armor of light plates.
The Devil's Asteroid
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Arsia Mons, he said, is home to the biggest mountain glacier on Mars now buried, but as much as three miles deep when snow was falling in ancient times, climate modelers have concluded, and the area is filled with hundreds of miles of deep fractures in the ground, or “fossae,” as such Martian features are called.
First Contact
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Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician.
Phobos
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Martian humanity is, in fact, a race of sextuple origin; but it is, at present, biped, bimanous and what may be called bipennate, since those beings have two wings.
Part III, Chapter III of "Uranie"
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The Martian considers the theistic argument that it would be impossible to have an orderly universe merely resulting from the inherent properties of natural forces, and that "directivity" is necessary to keep the universe on its present track.
The Necessity of Atheism
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He pulled several down and discovered that the pages were stamped with bizarre runes of what must have been the written form of the Martian language.
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According to the site, the old adage ‘Men are from Mars, women are from Venus’ is merely a smokescreen - felines are the real Martians.
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He could have spent longer drinking in the Martian view, letting his eyes wander with relish over every rock and stone, every gulley and mound, every dune and hollow, but he knew that he had to get going.
First Words
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But the premise of the movie (that Cruise fights off the Martians) is a travesty of the book.
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The ordinary traffic had been stopped, I believe, in order to allow of the passage of troops and guns to Chertsey, and I have heard since that a savage struggle occurred for places in the special trains that were put on at a later hour to help clear this area of people before the dead plague worsened or the Martians annihilated the town.
The War of The Worlds
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After a Sydney-wide ineluctable ostent — for Lo! the sky turned blood red and all took on a Martian hue — the Six Sennight Remedial Treatment for Elimination of Superfluity of the Central Circumferences for the Young At Heart Though Not in Years has arrived through the good offices of the local dak wallah.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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A paper on, for example, the Martian atmosphere typically would not cite publications on the atmospheres of other planets.
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There is so much dust in the Martian atmosphere that twilight routinely lasts for two hours.
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And, the rover also ‘snapped’ an inspiring picture of the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the Sun.
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The existence of two Martian moons was predicted around 1610 by Johannes Kepler, the astronomer who derived the laws of planetary motion.
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Instead of roaming the surface like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, it has a robotic arm that will dig into the Martian surface to collect samples for analysis.
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Two remotely controlled roving vehicles are now on the Martian surface.
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Here's what I call Martian alphabet, just like your alphabet, A is A, B is B, C is C, different shapes for different phonemes, right?
VS Ramachandran on your mind
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As the methanation reaction proceeds, it rids us of a potential problem, that of storing super-cold liquid hydrogen on the Martian surface.
The Case for Mars
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He trod hard on the foot of a floor, Richard Pendlebury, with a praetorian guard of Martians, hand in Bowscar.
THE SCAR
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Thanks. baseball card wayne gretzky dauwalders direct mail martian postcard strathmore postcards city wilmington north carolina postcards seaside rendezvous army deltiology postcards from paris greenville titnaic classic mac os software appearance little boy planter automobilclub sport authority leaf platters cky inhuman creation station womens slouch boot - 2006-08-15 16: 27: 36
The Girls, The Collectors, and The Life
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Today those Martian aliens, in simulacrum, are bestriding the planet in the unlovely guise of wind turbines.
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McKay no longer argues as strenuously that the tiny microfossil is an important part of his case, because he is finding what he believes are much larger Martian microbes in other meteorites.
First Contact
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The first is that a cloud of methane has been found to co-occur with long-established clouds of water vapour in the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
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War of the Worlds. H. G. Wells. The classic alien invasion tale oftechnologically advanced Martian conquerors with an enormousAchilles' Heel.
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Indeed, three separate classes of meteorites are known that contain Martian atmospheric gases.
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First stop: the "aeroshell braking" department, the people who can make a spaceship that slows itself down by skimming along the Martian atmosphere.
Traveling Sharks
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Engineers and scientists will have the data at hand to help them design new missions, identify sites for exobiological investigations and, perhaps, prospect for water when exploring the Martian surface.
The Case for Mars
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In addition to meteoritic bits, Dr. Smith will also accept as evidence of extraterrestrial origin either the emergence of heat-ray wielding Martians or the spread of non-organic spores that seek human hosts. skullsinthestars Says:
The Terror « Skulls in the Stars
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A network of micro-satellites as a constellation around Mars would characterize the 3 - D structure of the atmosphere, giving a new look at Martian climatology.
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After all, who doesn't want to see Joe Stalin bust a move on an invading Martian?
March 2009
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I would also love to add the name of Martian manhunter to the "films that have to be made to introduce each character to the public before JLA movie starts" list.
DC Comics CCO Geoff Johns on the Possibility of a Justice League Movie: “We’ll Talk in San Diego” | /Film
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a Martian year takes 687 of our days
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Men in dark pants, white shirts and suspenders hustle around with scripts in hand, intoning into stand-up microphones and creating their own alarming sound effects as they chronicle the fake Martian invasion.
Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse
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On Merced's fiftieth birthday, the then Martian government approved the dissemination of grist over all human-made surfaces on the planet.
METAPLANETARY
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High methane concentrations (reds and yellows) appear during martian summer in localized plumes.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Dubbed ExoMars, the mission will send a lander and a rover to the red planet to carry out exobiology and geophysical analysis of the Martian environment.
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Intriguingly, this class of worlds includes the Martian moons, from which fully reversible Mars missions could ultimately be staged.
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In effect, the debris is captured and contained locally by the Martian gravity field.
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Although the foreign agents are Martians, they are not particularly alien, looking enough like human beings that the Martian leader could call himself Boris and pose as an Istrian.
Hitting "The Barrier"
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And the other interesting aspect of the nanobes is that they're in the same size range as the controversial Martian nanobe bacteria that were found in a meteorite some years ago.
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He's the author of mindfulness (moria, 2006), on stealing lips (The Martian Press, 2006) & is beside the point (Big Game Books Tinyside 34, 2007), and death is (skin of me teeth press, 2007).
POETRY FEEDS THE WORLD...LITERALLY!
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The most obvious source, and one that is ubiquitous on the Martian surface, is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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A sol is a Martian day, which lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds.
Archive 2006-10-01
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An X-ray spectrometer on board the rover performed 15 separate chemical analyses of the Martian soil, and identified large amounts of silicate minerals, suggesting that Mars had a similar geological history to the Earth.
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Internal evidence -- a fairly sophisticated Martian X-ray machine, a Lowellian canal, a reference to a great Marsquake of 17897 San Francisco, 1907? suggest that the booklet was issued during the first decade of this century.
The Mars Gazette: Liquid Peptonoids as Ephemera
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She pictured some prowling Martian, or other alien invader, inspecting the strangeness of the twilit human world.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Other schemes: zapping the Martian permafrost with microwaves to extract water, mixing the water with Mars's claylike red dust to make bricks, turning the calcium and sulfur in the soil into gypsum.
The Stars Of Mars
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One way to quash remaining doubts that the salts are really there, however, would be to equip a Martian rover with an X-ray diffractometer - an instrument that analyzes the properties of crystals.
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He has found overwhelming evidence of a vast frozen ocean beneath the dust near the Martian equator where simple life could have thrived as microbes.
The Sun
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The title sprang from an argument over a line in the show My Favorite Martian.
Classic TV Writer Helped Invent 'Mad Libs'
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Shira-i, a former captain now crippled and obsolete, is reduced to selling photos of an Earthrise over a Martian city to credulous tourists.
Set the dial for…1972! « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.
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Charles has actually planned a route across the Martian south pole using photographs taken by the Viking and Mariner probes.
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Species found associated with these mangroves because of their location adjacent to tropical forests and because of high freshwater input include the tropical forest species, leguminosae vine (Dalbergia brownei), and Apocynaceae liana (Rhabdadenia biflora); freshwater macrophytes, Araceae Montrichardia arborescens, and Leguminosae Mora oleifera; and palm species, Euterpe oleracea and Orbygnia martiana.
Pará mangroves
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If these nutrients were eaten by Martian bacteria or other life forms, the gases they would inevitably release as waste would also be radioactively labeled and would be detected by an installed radiation counter.
First Contact
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Martian winds magkaroon muli ng malinis na Espiritu's solar panels, pagpapalawak nito habang-buhay.
Ideonexus.com »2009» Pebrero
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For years Martians were imagined as the stuff of nightmares - bug-eyed monsters, ravening warlords or advanced experimenters on humans.
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The claims centre on a mineral with a high iron content called magnetite, which is found embedded in the Martian rock in an unusual form.
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The failure of the Martian greenhouse effect is obviously not due to any shortage of carbon dioxide!
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If I get this right, Ron Levin apparently did not bother to learn that the photo he thought was a flat portion of the Martian surface with a puddle is actually a photo of a sloping cliff inside a crater.
NASA Watch: June 2007 Archives
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The idea that the carbonates were formed in a Martian cauldron is not heard much today.
First Contact
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After 398 million km, the spacecraft fired its engines and slowed down enough to be captured by the Martian gravity.
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As I examined the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that is always to be found in the pocket-pouch of a Martian warrior my hand fell upon the emblazoned radium flash torch of the black dator.
The Warlord of Mars
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Unlike most precious stones and gems, which require faceting to reveal their splendor, the pearl is perfect in its natural state and may be seen to manifest the universal monad, a notion familiar to the court of Urbino through the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Martianus Capella and the interests of Nicholas of Cusa. 127
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The pictures showed fresh wheel tracks in the sand, stretching out behind the rover as it continues its exploration of the Martian surface.
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CH001 * A. Old Fashioned Martian Girl* by Mary A. Turzillo CH002 * Trophies and Treasures* by Jerry Oltion & A.y A.t Hanson CH003 * Viewschool* by Rajnar Vajra CH004 * The First Martian* by Joe Schembrie CH005 * Unbound* by Dave Creek CH006 Science Fact: * The Fifth Biorevolution* by Stephen L. Gillett, Ph. D.
Who Do You Say I Am
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It is highly unlikely that it would BE a fossil "crinoid" for the simple a priori reason that Martian flora and fuana assuming they existed would necessarily have followed a completely separate course of evolution from earth species.
Posthuman Blues
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Our homework from Friday was to write a composition on our dream for the world with a forward from Dr. Martian Luther King's speech at the top.
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Methane has been found in the Martian atmosphere which scientists say could be a sign of present-day life on Mars.
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The buildings thinned out and they saw some of the heliotropic Martian vegetation, spreading greedy hands to the Sun.
The Rolling Stones
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An emblem of this book's influence: the word "grok"--Martian for complete, instinctive understanding--has entered the language and a dictionary or two.
Ron Moore's favorite SF books
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This haunting work, though notionally concerned with attempts at intrusive human settlement on Mars, is pervaded by a sense of solitude and loss, particularly with regard to the fragile and doomed Martians.
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Species found associated with these mangroves because of their location adjacent to tropical forests and because of high freshwater input include the tropical forest species, leguminosae vine (Dalbergia brownei), and Apocynaceae liana (Rhabdadenia biflora); freshwater macrophytes, Araceae Montrichardia arborescens, and Leguminosae Mora oleifera; and palm species, Euterpe oleracea and Orbygnia martiana.
Pará mangroves
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Since then, the solar wind has gradually eroded the Martian atmosphere so that today it is less than 1% as thick as that of the Earth.
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This new measurement technique will allow scientists to detect the chemical composition of the Martian atmosphere, ionosphere, and surface.
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Toronto-based York University scientists, who were instrumental in making a meteorological device known as lidar, said their discovery was made over the last month when the lidar emitted laser light into the Martian atmosphere to measure its outline - dust, ground fog and clouds.
India eNews
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This thing came screaming down through the Martian atmosphere and it underwent some ablation.
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Such complex looking landforms in the Cydonia region are thought to be the result of landslides and erosion of the ancient Martian crust.antwrp. gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060926. html
Cydonia: The face | My[confined]Space
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If all goes according to plan, the aeroshell capsule will hit the top of the Martian atmosphere on January 4.
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Patterns In Mars Crater Floors Give Picture Of Drying Lakes (Sep. 16, 2009) - Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter martian ... > read more
Undefined
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Unlike Mars, where the thin Martian atmosphere allows for aerobraking maneuvers, all of the energy needed to move into a capture orbit must be brought along from Earth in the form of hydrazine or another type of fuel.
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However, if we choose our halocarbon greenhouse gases carefully and employ varieties lacking in chlorine, we can actually build up an ultraviolet-shielding ozone layer in the Martian atmosphere.
The Case for Mars
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Don's eyes widened when he saw that it was a Martian's "pram" - the self-propelled personal environment without which a Martian cannot live either on Earth or Venus.
Between Planets
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Planetary geologists formerly believed that any impact ejecta with speeds exceeding the Martian escape velocity would almost certainly be vaporized or at least completely melted.
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Veronika Part's Odile in Act III of Swan Lake should have been taped (perhaps, fingers crossed, it was) for future broadcast across Martian spacecamps, to show those who left earth behind what bedazzlement looked like before our planet turned completely brown.
Of Mice and Me (cont'd): James Wolcott
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Haven’t we seen this plot in Dances with Wolves, The Word for World is Forest, Apocalypse Now, The Martian Chronicles, Cameron’s own The Abyss, and assorted candidates from multiple genres in various books and movies, pretty much from 1960 onward?
Avatar thoughts « Third Point of Singularity
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And if we go to Mars, we're going to have to learn to live off the land as well - learn to extract water and oxygen and other consumable materials from the Martian environment so as to minimise the amount of mass you need to take and bring back.
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And Elvis crops up again to battle mutant Martian teddy bears (with the aid of Finland's president!) in the bizarre "Hard-boiled Kekkonen," by Matti Hagelberg.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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This will allow humankind to peek up to two metres beneath the Martian surface for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury. A collection of short stories focusing on humanity's encounters with the Red Planet and its eerie inhabitants.
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Jonathan runs The Martian Press, which publishes poetry chapbooks.
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Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter martian past.
Impact Lab
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A good case has already been made for bacteria microfossils in a Martian meteorite.
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AS NASA's two Martian rovers continue sending information home, dozens of scientists have crunched the numbers on the most comprehensive swag of data ever collected from another planet.
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So if the 'Martian methane' is not due to extraplanetary sources, we're down to biological or geological origin or a combo?
New Findings Say Mars Methane Comes from Life or Water — or Both | Universe Today
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This will allow humankind to peek up to two metres beneath the Martian surface for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The air was full of sound, a deafening and confusing conflict of noises—the clangorous din of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the thud of trees, fences, sheds flashing into flame, and the crackling and roaring of fire.
The War of The Worlds
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Fleeing the destruction of their own planet, the Martians had, five millions years previously, interbred with protohuman hominids in order to perpetuate their species.
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Indeed, three separate classes of meteorites are known that contain Martian atmospheric gases.
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He trod hard on the foot of a floor, Richard Pendlebury, with a praetorian guard of Martians, hand in Bowscar.
THE SCAR
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Here, Massimo freezes it into a Martian soundscape, and thus allows it to escape his grasp in an unremarkable skyjacking.
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Spirit and Opportunity have also roved through the worst of the Martian winter with flying colors, and spring is on the horizon.
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Great Jupiter, king of the Martian night, whose brilliancy, if not his size, outrivalled the pale moons; Saturn, with his tilted ring, was visible to the naked eye; and yon pearly blue star, just rising to announce the morning, was Earth.
Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner
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The author has invented a style of speech for the Martians that the Earth humans have to try and get the hang of, full of stuff like 'Explicative-Interrogative?' and 'Parareproductive intromission activity', etc.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: In the Courts Of the Crimson Kings - S. M. Stirling
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One, it underlined how weirdly obsessed and overserious NBA fans are about the league's all-time pecking order—witness the recent howling when Dallas's coach dared suggest that Dirk Nowitzki belonged in the greatest-ever Top 10, as if there was the possibility the Martian All-Stars might arrive and our planet would get hammered in the low post because it opted for Nowitzki over Hakeem Olajuwon.
No Use Denying the LeBrilliance Anymore
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Any alien species will either look completely human (Superman) or have the ability to polymorph into a human (Martian Manhunter).
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » When parodying superheroes, you can do better than lampooning their clothes
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Using a new procedure called aerobraking, the robot spacecraft slowly adjusts to a circular orbit and in 1999 begins taking the first of almost 250,000 images of the Martian surface.
Martians Remain Stubbornly Camera-Shy
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Despite the dust storm, it landed on the surface and for a few tantalising moments started transmitting the first view from the Martian surface.
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But that was not what Viking found --- it uncovered evidence of life but (to this day) could not rule out an odd inorganic reaction between its biology experiments and an unknown oxidant in Martian soil.
Mars Sample Return Planetary Protection Report Released - NASA Watch
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Don't you love the little cartoon boy and girl running in terror from the invading Martian death rays?
May 27th, 2009
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The Martian atmosphere contains only tiny amounts of water.
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McKay did report the possibility that the meteorite contained a Martian “microfossil”—the minute remains of the outer sheath of a bacterium—but his strongest results involved the presence of minerals and rock alternations that are considered signs that bacteria and other microbes were once at work eating the rock, transforming the rock, and depositing waste in the rock.
First Contact
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A notorious example was the alleged life in the Martian meteorite, now almost universally discredited as being of non-biological origin.
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But even if the Martians originated independently, they would presumably be carbon- and water-based, would use organic molecules made of chains of CHOPNS atoms, and would probably use many simple molecules that our microbes eat – polyphosphate, sugars, lipids, etc. ts
God and natural selection, hand in hand - The Panda's Thumb
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Perhaps a man hitched to the cart of a Martian or roasted on the spit by inhabitants of the Milky Way will recall the veal cutlet he used to slice on his dinner plate and apologize (belatedly!) to the cow.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Other highlights include the psychotramatic lullaby of ‘The Talk of Creatures’, the literally glass-shattering gutbucket blues of ‘The Coming of the Crow’, and the Martian Beatles doo-wop of ‘The Simple Song’.
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For example, the Martian polar caps exhibit extensive layers that have been exposed by subsequent erosion.
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The first detection of lightning in a Martian dust storma new detector on a radio telescope.
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He's the author of mindfulness (moria, 2006), on stealing lips (The Martian Press, 2006) & is beside the point (Big Game Books Tinyside 34, 2007).
Archive 2007-09-01
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Hey dummies, deer and elk can't tell the difference between breakup blaze orange-martian electric green and a olive drab n dirt or mossy oak gillie suit.
Woolrich Chic
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Aries: Aquarian energies usually electrify you Martian sparks with innovative ideas, original inspirations and inventive future plans.
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Martian orbiters can use aerobraking to reduce the amount of propellant they need.
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How very annoying for you having noisy Martians in your radiators.
RESCUING ROSE
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The Martian atmosphere today is predominantly carbon dioxide, with a pressure of about 6 millibars at the surface.
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After a lunar base is establish, permanently manned orbiting facilities should be established in Martian orbit in order to exploit mine the regolith of the moons of Mars for oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and mass shielding.
Dear Mr. Augustine - NASA Watch
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Thanks. baseball card wayne gretzky dauwalders direct mail martian postcard strathmore postcards city wilmington north carolina postcards seaside rendezvous army deltiology postcards from paris greenville titnaic classic mac os software appearance little boy planter automobilclub sport authority leaf platters cky inhuman creation station womens slouch boot - 2006-08-15 16: 27: 36
The Girls, The Collectors, and The Life
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It is like playing chess with a Martian: eerie and weird and very interesting.
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The shop offers a wide range of Lunar and Martian meteorites along with many rare achondrites and chondrites.
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I sat and played a sweet guitar and Martians grokked me from afar
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Janis Ian’s “Welcome Home”–for true fans everywhere
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The cold, lightless and energy-poor conditions under the seafloor provide a promising research analog for the harsh conditions in subsurface Martian soil or near hydrothermal vents on Europa, Jupiter’s second moon.
Barely Alive, Seafloor Microbes Might Resemble Exo-Organisms « Isegoria
