As one of two Mars exploration ‘rovers’ created by Nasa, Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on the planet in 2012 and has been busily collecting data ever since – a mission closely followed by the Discovery Channel, which is about to reveal all with Red Planet Rover. The show aims to provide audiences with a front-row view of one of the most thrilling and challenging scientific endeavours in history.
“Viewers will get access unlike anything else seen before, and take an incredible ride with the smartest, most complex robot ever launched from Earth – a one-ton, nuclear powered, all-terrain vehicle that is part geologist, part chemist, part photographer.
“Nasa’s Curiosity was sent to solve one of the greatest mysteries of science – did life ever exist on Mars? It’s an audacious mission with no margin for error. And, like most things, making history has not been easy. Curiosity looks to uncover how...
“Viewers will get access unlike anything else seen before, and take an incredible ride with the smartest, most complex robot ever launched from Earth – a one-ton, nuclear powered, all-terrain vehicle that is part geologist, part chemist, part photographer.
“Nasa’s Curiosity was sent to solve one of the greatest mysteries of science – did life ever exist on Mars? It’s an audacious mission with no margin for error. And, like most things, making history has not been easy. Curiosity looks to uncover how...
- 12/18/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Richard Matheson is one of my favorite writers—not only of science fiction and horror but of Westerns (try his superb Spur Award-winning Journal Of The Gun Years, recently reissued in paperback by Forge). Also, he’s one of my favorite screenwriters (adapting both his own & others’ works) with such credits as The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, The Legend Of Hell House, The Night Stalker (& The Night Strangler), The Raven (1963) and Somewhere In Time. And I haven’t even brought up The Twilight Zone and his stellar contributions to that TV classic. I treasure a letter I got from him 30 years ago in response to my efforts at promoting a Tz colleague (the late Charles Beaumont). Starlog has interviewed him several times (#100, #150, #151, #203, #256). And I even know the industrious writer (Matt Bradley) who has busily been preparing Matheson’s new, eagerly-awaited biography for several years.
Perchance I know Too Much. Because...
Perchance I know Too Much. Because...
- 11/6/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
Richard Matheson is one of my favorite writers—not only of science fiction and horror but of Westerns (try his superb Spur Award-winning Journal Of The Gun Years, recently reissued in paperback by Forge). Also, he’s one of my favorite screenwriters (adapting both his own & others’ works) with such credits as The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, The Legend Of Hell House, The Night Stalker (& The Night Strangler), The Raven (1963) and Somewhere In Time. And I haven’t even brought up The Twilight Zone and his stellar contributions to that TV classic. I treasure a letter I got from him 30 years ago in response to my efforts at promoting a Tz colleague (the late Charles Beaumont). Starlog has interviewed him several times (#100, #150, #151, #203, #256). And I even know the industrious writer (Matt Bradley) who has busily been preparing Matheson’s new, eagerly-awaited biography for several years.
Perchance I know Too Much. Because...
Perchance I know Too Much. Because...
- 11/6/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
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