Michael Griffin, NASA's cherubic and relentlessly optimistic administrator, hopes that names are destiny: He is promising that Ares will launch mankind outward to the fourth planet of our solar system, a dream of virtually everyone ever involved in the space program, but one that has been abandoned repeatedly in the past. (discovermagazine.com)
Nearly 35 years after NASA's twin Viking robots eased down onto its ruddy surface, there is still no incontrovertible evidence that living organisms ever existed on the fourth planet from the sun. (discovermagazine.com)
Scientists have a wildly ambitious plan to transform the fourth planet from the sun into an exact duplicate of the third. (discovermagazine.com)