* Total Recall for Rover Team Four Cornell space
scientists are part of a team planning NASA's next Mars rover
mission, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Scheduled for launch
in 2009, the mission will explore the region for organic
molecules to determine if Mars' environment...
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Hopefully such a film will only increase the public's interest in and
demand to see Europa up close. If a generation of Mars sci-fi led to the
Viking missions, let's hope Cameron kicks off something similar for
Europa.
I'm sure it will be full of hideous errors, like, oh I don't know, an
unshi
2010: The Year We Make Contact, made in 1984, did a pretty nice job in
depicting Europa,
minus perhaps the chlorophyll (but ya never know).
http://www.sciflicks.com/2010/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/
At least Aliens of the Deep will make folks aware of Europa and the wider
U
Sounds like the Europa mindshare problem is almost
solved. No more "Huh? whazzat?" After this movie,
all we'll have to deal with is whatever hideous
scientific bloopers the film will inevitably foist off
on an unwitting audience.
The last (and come to think of it, only) mention of a
an outer-pl
The official Web site:
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/aliensofthedeep/
The teacher's guide (PDF file) has a number of pages devoted to
Europa.
Larry
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From: Mark
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"When the director James Cameron proclaimed himself
"king of the world" on winning the Oscar for
"Titanic," who knew that he also had designs on the
rest of the solar system? His newest film, "Aliens of
the Deep," is a grandiose hybrid of undersea
documentary and outer-space fantasy that begins on
