rectly MARS was the first planet to have a space: craft orbit around it — Mariner 9 in 1971, Two Viking probes launched In 197 landed on Mars, (Please refir to. last week's column), A year later, Viking took: the first color photo, which showed a salmon-pink sky and magenta sunset. a These colors come from ‘ the brick colored limonite dust blowing up ‘to 100 mp.h, in the Martian atmos phere, The second Viking WITH ROBFAT > aye / ( [: 0 \! 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The” meteorite eventually anded in the “Allan Hills region of Antarctica; where an . American research team stum- ‘bled on it in 1984, .. "Examination of the mete- orite ¢ twelve: years — later revealed fossilized remains of . . What looked like micro-organ- +. ke life, similar to the kind that~, .,...- Was abundant on earth 3% bil- “lion years ago. a ‘These “aliens” are’ little | and green all right, and while they aré not quite men, they . ;, ate visitors from outer space nonetheless, - ; « (To. be continued.) _« ALLSIGNS, “The movie, Contact, will > “be impactual.:Tt is based on. the only novel by science pop- _>> lise: Cazi. Sagan, It’s about « humankind’s first verifiable gence, Jodie Foster stars. She said, | recently; “I get sick and tired ~~ of this cliche of the film indus- eo try as ‘the Player’: and how ~ everyone is a scumsucking ‘pig, and how the film business ‘Is'anti-art. 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