India s Martian Chronicles

Here, you've got Martian alphabet.

Suppose Martian scientists came to Earth.

BC We enter the Martian atmosphere.

Now, none of you is a Martian. How did you do that?

Here's what I call Martian alphabet. Just like your alphabet, A is A, B is B, C is C.

It will be injected into orbit around Mars, and will study the Martian upper atmosphere, especially its interaction with the solar wind.

At the same time, the Martian atmosphere has a reducing effect on sunlight, which poses a problem for the energy supply for Mars detection.

The hardest part of the mission is that the probe just has one chance before entering the Martian atmosphere for aerodynamic shape and parachute deceleration.

And then, of course, NASA also had a big announcement, and President Clinton gave a press conference, about this amazing discovery of life in a Martian meteorite.

The core and the most difficult part of the Mars exploration mission are the aerodynamic shape and parachute deceleration process after the probe enters Martian atmosphere. There is just one chance to ensure success.

It is the weak nerve center of a flabby semi state, with almost defenseless frontiers, where humanitarian rhetoric masks spinelessness. But America s sporadic, erratic, and largely ineffective deployment of power is hardly of Martian quality.

Geologists from the Survey served on the Pathfinder imaging team and helped plan for a wide range of Pathfinder experiments and geologic observations, including selection of a landing site at the mouth of a large Martian outflow channel.

If a proverbial Martian were watching the flow of electrons between East Asia and North America, he would probably notice robust two way traffic. But if he looked inside the data packets, he would see very different content.

This culturally desiccated world is much more alien than the red desert of the Martian landscape that Tereshkova and her cosmonaut friends including her husband dreamed of in their youth. The collapse of the country for which she lived underscores her overwhelming sense of tragedy.

In the Solar System, NASA s Curiosity rover has discovered what may be organic carbon in the fossil mud of an ancient Martian lakebed. Europa, Jupiter s icy moon, has been spotted spewing water into space from a hidden ocean that could hold twice the volume of all of Earth s oceans.

And one of the things that we should do is just make a grid of the globe and randomly go and inspect all the places that the grid intersects, just to see what's on life. And if we did that with our little Martian probe, which we have not done on Earth, we would begin to see some incredible species.