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	Christmas on Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christmas on Mars is a feature film by the rock band The Flaming Lips which has been in production for over five years.
		According to the band's website, Christmas on Mars is a film "written and directed by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, and featuring all of the band and many of their associates as actors (including Singer-songwriter and former host of Blue's Clues, Steve Burns, and Elijah Wood of Lord of the Rings fame).
		The band have detailed their unconventional plans for 'Christmas On Mars' on its release through Warner distribution; the movie will be screened at special concerts by The Flaming Lips, creating a unique sensory experience with the movie acting as a backdrop to the live music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_on_Mars (314 words)

	European lander set for Christmas Day rendezvous with Mars
		Europe's first-ever solo expedition to Mars is on course for a Christmas Day rendezvous with the Red Planet after surviving the greatest solar storm on record and a post-launch power loss, mission officials declared here Tuesday.
		The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Mars Express, is now 40 million kilometers (25 million miles) from Mars and on December 19 will release on schedule a small robot lab to search for signs of life on the martian surface, they said.
		Mars Express comprises an orbiter that will loop the planet, using sensors to map terrain and its minerology, analyse the planet's atmosphere and peer as far as one kilometer (900 yards) beneath the surface using ground-penetrating radar.
	www.spacedaily.com /2003/031111141315.h0biodon.html (754 words)

	Mars Lasar album collection: Chistmas from Mars
		Mars Lasar's commercial recording career began in back in 1992 with the release of his debut Olympus.
		While Mars Lasar's theme is revisiting the traditional Christmas songs and carols, they come with his distinctive tilt on things.
		Christmas From Mars is well grounded yet still out of this world which is probably an accurate description of the music of Mars Lasar in general.
	www.marslasar.com /mars_music/mmusic_xmas1/marschristmas1.html (919 words)

	Going to Mars for Christmas
		Mars Express is now within 20 million kilometres of the Red Planet and the next mission milestone comes on 19 December, when Mars Express will release Beagle 2.
		The first day on Mars is important for the lander because it has only a few hours to collect enough sunlight with its solar panels to recharge its battery.
		The Mars Express orbiter can also search for the lander but, because of its orbit, it will not be in place to do this until early January.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-11/esa-gtm111303.php (318 words)

	ORRERY: Mars - the red planet
		Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
		Mars has many striking surface features, such as Olympus Mons (right), a giant volcano, three times the height of Everest, with a base 600 km in diameter.
		The Mars Express spacecraft launched on 2 June 2003 and arrived at Mars on Christmas Day.
	www.harmsy.freeuk.com /mars.html (722 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Beagle set for festive encounter
		Mission officials say its parent space craft, Mars Express, has survived a massive solar storm and is within 20 million kilometres of the Red Planet.
		"Mars Express the satellite is on collision course with Mars," said John Reddy, principal of electrical systems.
		As a last resort, Mars Express can search for the probe but it will not be in place for such a task until early January.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3261095.stm (713 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| Dreaming of a Mars Christmas
		Called Mars Express, the lander is so called because it will be built more quickly than any other comparable planetary mission.
		In contrast to the twin NASA rovers also on their way now to Mars, Beagle 2 is more of a mining station and furnace than a wheeled car.
		The last time we had multiple landers on Mars was 1976." Commencing on December 19th, it will take approximately five days from when the orbiter reaches Mars, before the lander encounters the martian red soil on Christmas.
	www.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=21997 (1606 words)

	First Christmas On Mars
		The Flaming Lips' first feature film, 'Christmas on Mars' will be available in time for Christmas in 2002.
		Coyne explains that this birth is also special for other reasons, "The hype they've added to this Mars mission is that this beautiful woman is giving birth to this sort of artificial impregnation from this bubble that she wears on her stomach, which is the way infants are gonna be born in the future.
		It is not intended for 'Christmas on Mars' to be released at conventional movie theaters.
	www.wbr.com /flaminglips/cmp/averymartianxmas.htm (899 words)

	Encyclopedia: Christmas on Mars
		Christmas (literally, the Mass of Jesus Christ) is a traditional holiday observed on 25 December.
		Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky.
		While Mars Express, an orbiter, surveys the planet from a few hundred miles up, the Beagle 2 will be able to stick its devices right into Mars, sampling rocks and soil on the surface and below.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Christmas-on-Mars (866 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: Rosetta's Christmas present to Mars Express
		Mars Express is a medium-sized mission, one of the pioneers in ESA's efforts to build faster, cheaper, space science missions.
		Mars Express is the first of the ESA's new "flexible" missions.
		In particular, Mars Express is making maximum use of pre-existing "off-the-shelf" technology and hardware that has already been developed for the Rosetta Orbiter.
	sci.esa.int /content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=25578 (508 words)

	USATODAY.com - Craft to Land on Mars on Christmas Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		LONDON — A British-built craft designed to scour the surface of Mars for signs of life is scheduled to land on the planet on Christmas Day, scientists said Tuesday.
		Mars Explorer is not the only mission heading to the red planet.
		Mars Explorer, which cost about $345 million, is an attempt to demonstrate that Europe can have an effective — and relatively inexpensive — space exploration program.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2003-11-11-mars-xmas-landing_x.htm (593 words)

	Christmas on Mars
		Mars does not have water; the ice on Mars is made of carbon dioxide, a product that we call dry ice.
		So, even though Mars is cold enough, there is not enough moisture in the atmosphere to produce a significant amount of snow.
		Mars has 687 days to our 365 days, so would you go by the Earth's or Mars's calendar.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/science_for_kids/30172 (352 words)

	Mars Encounter, Christmas :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
		Compared to the twin NASA rovers, a European lander expected to reach Mars around Christmas Day is smaller, less mobile, and more biologically-oriented in its testing protocols.
		According to mission status reports, "The Mars Express spacecraft is in good health and is operating normally.
		Mars Express forms part of an international Mars exploration program, featuring also the US probes Mars Surveyor and Mars Odyssey, the two Mars Exploration Rovers and the Japanese probe Nozomi.
	www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=685&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1709 words)

	CNN.com - Spacecraft to land on Mars on Christmas - Nov. 12, 2003
		A British-built craft designed to scour the surface of Mars for signs of life is scheduled to land on the planet on Christmas Day, scientists said this week.
		The Beagle 2 lander is traveling aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express craft, launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 2.
		Two U.S. Mars rover craft are due to arrive in January, and Japan's trouble-plagued Nozomi orbiter, launched in 1998, continues on its way despite technical problems.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/space/11/12/mars.beagle.ap (557 words)

	ESA - Mars Express - Merry Christmas from Mars:Mars Express enters orbit around the Red PlanetContact awaited with ...
		This firing gave the probe a boost so that it could match the higher speed of the planet on its orbit around the Sun and be captured by its gravity field, like climbing in a spinning merry-go-round.
		In the course of the coming week, the orbit of Mars Express will be gradually adjusted in order to prepare for its scientific mission.
		Mars Express is currently several thousand kilometres away from Mars, in a very elongated equatorial orbit.
	www.esa.int /export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMAD8374OD_0.html (600 words)

	Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Back on Earth where it comes from, the craft is known as the Beagle 2, sent to Mars by the European Space Agency in search of life.
		NASA's Everett Gibson, the interdisciplinary scientist for the Mars Express/Beagle 2 mission, explains: "We have two [ways] to get samples: a rock abrasion tool, and a burrowing mole." Both are embedded in the Beagle's robotic arm.
		Methane on Mars should be destroyed quickly, probably within a matter of months, by the planet's strong ultraviolet radiation.
	www.thehelparchive.com /new-1624732-292.html (1056 words)

	Mars Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mars Express was launched on a Russian Soyuz/Fregat rocket in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on June 2, 2003 with the Beagle 2 lander onboard.
		The Mars Express will assume a polar orbit while the Beagle 2 lander descends to the planets surface.
		The mission will search for evidence of past or present life on Mars, determine if there is water below its surface, if water once existed on the planets surface, and determine how the planet has changed over time.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~gatto/mars/marsexpress.htm (897 words)

	Mars Christmas - A Kaptain Korolev prototype (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The guts of Mars Christmas lie exposed in a kandy mess.
		Taste frenzy, the Mars Christmas is a failure in the realm of the visual arts but thanks to the power of taste the Kaptain is sucessful!
		Finally the Kaptain would like to point out that Mars and Mars Bar are a trademark of Mars Inc. a large kandy kompany who have nothing to do with the Kaptain.
	www.geocities.com /kaptain_korolev (474 words)

	SPACE.com -- Europe Plans Human Missions to Moon and Mars
		The ESA has planned two flagship missions to Mars _ ExoMars would land a rover on the planet in 2009, and Mars Sample Return would bring back a sample of the Martian surface in 2011-14.
		Mars Sample Return would be a more complex mission requiring five spacecraft _ an interplanetary transfer stage, a Mars orbiter, a descent module, an ascent module and an Earth re-entry vehicle.
		The British built lander, which was due to land on Mars on Christmas Day, has not been heard from since it separated from the ESA's mother ship, Mars Express, in mid-December, despite several efforts to contact it.
	www.space.com /news/europe_moon_040203.html (636 words)

	Christmas on Mars Tickets - Christmas on Mars Theater Tickets - Theatre Ticket Brokers
		If the Christmas on Mars tickets you are looking for are not available, please check back as our inventory is constantly updated.
		Orders for Christmas on Mars tickets that are no longer available will be cancelled or substituted at the customer's discretion.
		If you would like to attend a performance of Christmas on Mars to see theater live, or to see a tour schedule and information, Coast to Coast Tickets is your source.
	www.coasttocoasttickets.com /theater/christmas-on-mars_tickets.shtml (400 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Christmas landing for Mars probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		At its heart is a mass spectrometer used to measure the mass and abundance of atoms and molecules on planetary surfaces.
		Colin Pillinger, the brains behind the project, says this is the first mission dedicated to looking for life on Mars rather than simply signs that life once existed.
		If it lands safely, they are likely to crack open a few bottles of Mars Magic, a beer brewed specially for the occasion by a local brewer.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/64E18A90-BC75-4AEA-BFF0-6B6E40CBBB85.htm (507 words)

	Christmas on Mars Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Through Paul, it was Christmas time in Athens as Jesus became incarnate on Mars Hill in the form of a little Jewish man living in their midst, speaking their language, quoting their philosophers, and talking about the answer to their great mutual quest -the quest to know that Unknown God.
		Christmas is humility -laying down our culture and embracing another, relinquishing religious pride and longing to share Grace with other needy people.
		Christmas was never meant to happen just once a year.
	www.leaderu.com /marshill/mhr01/cmas1.html (6855 words)

	Christmas on Mars: be there with ESA \| Mars Today - Your Daily Source of Mars News
		Christmas on Mars: be there with ESA
		IMAGE CAPTION: [http://www.esrin.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEM06Q274OD_index_1.html] Mars Express will set off in 2003 Mars Express will leave Earth for Mars in late May or early June 2003 when the positions of the two planets make for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty-six months.
		Once Mars Express has escaped the Earth and is on course for the Red Planet, it will begin the six-month interplanetary cruise at a velocity of 10 800 km/h relative to Earth.
	www.marstoday.com /viewpr.html?pid=13230 (497 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mars gets Christmas visitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		On Thursday, Mars will have something in common with many families on Earth: It will have a visitor for Christmas.
		ESA scientists may not know if Beagle 2 has landed successfully until Christmas night when the massive radio telescope in Britain's Jodrell Bank Observatory tunes in to its transmitter.
		On Dec. 19, the lander separated from Mars Express, which starts circling Mars on Thursday, headed for a 12,500-mph entry into Mars' atmosphere.
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/2003-12-22-mars-usat_x.htm (467 words)

	Luchtzak Aviation \| Forums \| Civil Aviation \| Merry Christmas from Mars: - Whatever your aviation question is, we will ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sessions 1 and 3 (between 04:54 and 06:14 on Christmas Day morning and between 17:33 and 18:53 on Boxing Day evening respectively) both occurred during the martian night, and were intended to open communication with Mars Odyssey.
		A further explanation for the lack of contact between Beagle and the Earth is that the onboard clock may have been corrupted during the entry, descent, and landing stage of the mission.
		Mars Express and Beagle 2 are the only end-to-end tested systems, giving ESA more confidence of establishing a contact with the lander.
	www.luchtzak.be /postt2698.html (3663 words)

	Christmas on Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		One of four international missions heading to Mars this year, Beagle 2's primary scientific aim is to search for evidence of whether life may have existed or still exists on or below the surface of Mars.
		It is due to land on Mars on Christmas Day 2003.
		A vital function of the control centre is to test and verify all the commands sent to the probe, using the engineering replica of Beagle 2 which is mounted inside the Lander Operations Control Centre on a panoramic layout of the landing site.
	hero.ac.uk /sites/hero/uk/.../archives/2003/christmas_on_mars5183.cfm (567 words)

	Star of Peace--Bethlehem Iraq soldiers Christmas Jesus Lutheran Mars War Jesus Advent -- Beliefnet.com
		After all, Mars is the ancient god of war from which comes such words as "martial." War and the quiet humility of the birth of the Prince of Peace seem 63,000 light years apart.
		Soldiers and their families have seen the "star of war" far too closely, and they desire, like the Magi, to see and follow the star to the Child who alone brings peace and hope.
		This Christmas in our imaginations there will not be just Magi and shepherds kneeling in adoration at the newborn's manger.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/136/story_13660_1.html (514 words)

	Christmas Day Mars Landing
		December 17, 2003: It's wintertime in the northern hemisphere of Mars, and a flying saucer is about to land.
		Named after the ship that carried Charles Darwin, the Beagle 2 is a self-contained laboratory shaped like a saucer, or a pocket watch, about three feet in diameter.
		The mission of Science@NASA is to help the public understand how exciting NASA research is and to help NASA scientists fulfill their outreach responsibilities.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2003/17dec_beagle2.htm (1083 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| 2003 missions will go to Mars with Christmas spirit
		Because of the rotations of Mars and Earth and the movement of the orbiters around Mars, this condition is met intermittently for each spacecraft.
		Thus, Mars Express will be able to forward data and messages between Earth and NASA's Rovers, if needed, and Beagle 2 can do the same via Mars Odyssey as well as Mars Express.
		Future missions are expected to follow a communications standard compatible with that now adopted by ESA and NASA, thus giving Mars Express and Mars Odyssey the potential of maintaining a useful role as communications relays long after their scientific missions have ended.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0112/22marsexpress (547 words)

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