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408 (208,018 words) ISBN. 978-0-441-79034-0. Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual ...
Wikipedia. : Best of BJAODN. This is a collection of the best jokes and nonsense from Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense. The criterion for a joke getting on this page is simple: at least one Wikipedian found it funny and wrote a 10 page essay on for their psycho dissertation. This report was then presented to the President of the ...
Mars contains water, though mostly as permafrost. As top surface layer water appears readily visible at some places, such as the polar Korolev Crater. Almost all water on Mars today exists as polar permafrost ice, though it also exists in small quantities as vapor in the atmosphere. [ 1 ]
Jezero, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jezero on the edge of the Isidis basin. Jezero[a] (ICAO: JZRO) is a crater on Mars in the Syrtis Major quadrangle, [3] about 45.0 km (28.0 mi) in diameter. Thought to have once been flooded with water, the crater contains a fan- delta deposit rich in clays. [4] The lake in the crater was present when valley ...
Understanding Mars’ water loss is considered to be crucial for not only understanding the planet’s 4.6-billion-year history but also drawing up potential exploration plans for the solar system ...
"Heavy Water" (New Statesman, 1978) in which a working-class woman takes her mentally handicapped son on a Mediterranean cruise. " The Janitor on Mars " ( The New Yorker , 1998) in which a robot makes contact from Mars and reveals the shocking truth of mankind's place in the Universe.
Hellas Planitia / ˈhɛləs pləˈnɪʃiə / is a plain located within the huge, roughly circular impact basin Hellas[a] located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. [3] Hellas is the third- or fourth-largest known impact crater in the Solar System. The basin floor is about 7,152 m (23,465 ft) deep, 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deeper than the ...
Valles Marineris (/ ˈvælɪs mærɪˈnɛərɪs /; [1] Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971–72 which discovered it) is a system of canyons that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region. [2] At more than 4,000 km (2,500 mi) long, 200 km (120 mi) wide and up to 7 km (23,000 ft) deep, [3][4 ...