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	Mars Attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mars Attacks trading card series was created by Topps and painted by Norman Saunders over pencil roughs by Wally Wood and finished pencil art by Bob Powell.
		Mars Attacks (without an exclamation mark) is a highly popular science fiction trading card series.
		Some have criticized this as being far too similar to another parody of B-movies, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, where the killer tomatoes were also caused to explode when subjected to a particularly bad song.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_Attacks! (785 words)

	Sploid: Mars attacks
		Mars rises in the eastern sky after sunset, but by about midnight wherever you are, it hangs heavily near the center of the night sky, its red-orange color visible to the naked eye.
		But both astronomers and astrologers agree that Mars is coming close and is sitting in one zodiac house, a celestial section defined by star patterns as seen from Earth, for six months instead of the usual 45 days.
		It's the closest Mars will come to Earth until the year 2018, and astronomers say it's one of the best chances in a lifetime to see it close up.
	www.sploid.com /news/2005/10/mars_attacks.php (962 words)

	MARS ATTACKS
		The southern highlands are the oldest terrain on Mars.
		Mars is the fourth plant, named after the Roman god of war.
		Mars is half the size of the Earth.
	www.newton.mec.edu /Bigelow/classroom/hayes/astronomy/hayesstudentwork/LL_web/home_kljl.htm (511 words)

	Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Press Releases
		Ground controllers were able to send commands to the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit early Wednesday and received a simple signal acknowledging that the rover heard them, but they did not receive expected scientific and engineering data during scheduled communication passes during the rest of that martian day.
		The next opportunity to hear from the vehicle is when the rover may attempt to communicate with the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter at about 8:30 p.m.
		Project managers have not yet determined the cause, but similar events occurred several times during the Mars Pathfinder mission.
	marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov /newsroom/pressreleases/20040121a.html (211 words)

	Approaching Mars
		Mars and the fat crescent Moon are going to have a pleasing close encounter in the dawn sky.
		Earth is racing toward Mars at a speed of 23,500 mph, which means the red planet is getting bigger and brighter by the minute.
		Mark October 30th as the best day of all: Mars will rise at sunset, hang overhead at midnight, and "blaze forth against the dark background of space with a splendor that outshines Sirius and rivals the giant Jupiter himself." That's how astronomer Percival Lowell described a similar close encounter in the 19th century.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2005/27may_approachingmars.htm (822 words)

	Mars attacks
		Happily, Mars stays pretty close to us throughout the month of September — at mid-month its angular size has only diminished an arcsecond from its maximum size,and even by month's end it's only down a few more arcseconds — and it'll actually be easier to observe after opposition than before.
		Mars is approaching the southern summer solstice, which happens on September 29.
		The secret is that after opposition, Mars will rise earlier, which means it will be higher earlier in the evening, much more accessible to people who aren't able to stay up all night on a regular basis.
	ephemeris.sjaa.net /0309/d.html (824 words)

	MARS ATTACKS!
		It's all a set-up to the aliens attacking.
		Once the attack gets under way, the tone and pace of the film changes dramatically.
		The shear volume of actors makes it almost impossible to keep them all straight, nor do you really care who they are.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsM/f_mars.html (539 words)

	Zelda's Mars Attacks Home Page
		The Mars Attacks set consisted of 55 cards (54 pictures plus a checklist) depicting the invasion of Earth by desperate Martians, whose home planet was about to explode due to pressure building up in the planet's core.
		MARS ATTACKS was a bubble-gum card set produced by "Bubbles, Inc." (an alternate company name for Topps) in 1962.
		The cards, which sold for 5 cents a pack in 1962, were quickly denounced by parents who were shocked by the bloody, gory, graphic (cool!) pictures, and were pulled off the market after a very short time.
	www.marsattacksfan.com /homepage.htm (1110 words)

	Salon Directory
		Like any high school heroine worth her weight in greasy cafeteria tater tots, Veronica Mars' mix of alienation, sarcasm and angst is palpable from across a packed gymnasium.
		In other words, "Veronica Mars" (which returns with new episodes Tuesday at 9 p.m.; UPN) is idealized.
		But there's something else that sets her apart, an angry, stubborn self-confidence in the face of a very dark past, one that includes a dead best friend, a mom who skipped town, and a night when she was slipped a roofie and raped.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/feature/2005/03/29/veronica_mars/index.html (755 words)

	CNN - Star-studded 'Mars Attacks!' invades big screen - Dec. 13, 1996
		"Mars Attacks!" depicts a three-part invasion of America by bug-eyed, big-brained Martians.
		In light of these recent findings, it appears "Mars Attacks!" director Tim Burton already knew something we didn't.
		CNN - Star-studded 'Mars Attacks!' invades big screen - Dec. 13, 1996
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9612/13/mars.attacks (318 words)

	Research Magazine :: Summer 2001: Mars Attacks
		In April 1998, an image taken by the Mars Global Surveyor camera, with a resolution 10 times better than the Viking’s, revealed the “face” to be nothing more than a naturally eroded mesa, according to MGS chief scientist Arden Albee.
		Consider the case of the infamous “face on Mars.” One of NASA’s Viking orbiters innocently snapped a picture of the Cydonia region of Mars in 1976.
		Although not from Mars, the Murchison meteorite, which fell in Australia in 1969, was teaming with amino acids.
	www.ovpr.uga.edu /researchnews/summer2001/attacks.html (961 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "Mars Attacks!" review
		"Mars Attacks!" is full of nods to campy sci-fi flicks and pays homage to Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" over and over -- beginning with Jack Nicholson starring in a dual role.
		During an sequence clearly added to the script to spoof "Independence Day," Burton lets go of the leash and "Mars Attacks!" runs wild, each scene becoming more goofy than the last.
		After 20-minutes of attack scenes in which all cast members gets to twist their faces up in the requisite reaction shots, the silliness begins to snowball.
	splicedwire.com /96reviews/mars.html (601 words)

	Mars Attacks!! - TBCS Community Forums
		Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.
		The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky.
		This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history.
	www.thebestcasescenario.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1013 (297 words)

	Parent Previews: Mars Attacks
		Mars Attacks follows in the same vein, but fails not only because most of its content is inappropriate for families but also because it's a bad movie that's trying to be a bad movie.
		Mars Attacks is trying hard to be just as funny as those films appear now.
		Maybe fifty years from now when no one can remember Jack Nicholson, Mars Attacks may become the campy movie it was originally intended to be.
	movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=263 (343 words)

	Flight Journal: Mars Attacks!
		In 1961, the Mars flying boats began firefighting, but they had an inauspicious start: the Marianas was lost that year when it flew into a ridge, killing all four crew.
		Manhandling the enormous Mars through the turbulent convective air currents caused by the fire, Killin slows the airplane to 120 knots and lines up for a downhill run at 150 feet above the ground.
		Designed as a long-range "flying dreadnought" for the U.S. Navy, the big, lumbering Mars was deemed easy prey for enemy fighters and was consequently converted into a cargo and troop-transport craft.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_200506/ai_n13641135 (1517 words)

	Bad Astronomy Blog » Blog Archive » Mars attacks, again
		Mars will not come any closer than 43 million miles at opposition in October and November 2005; that if you looked at Mars through a telescope of magnification of 100, then Mars would appear, in the telescope, to seem as large as a “naked eye” view of the Full Moon.
		Mars will be it’s normal self all year, with no gigantic apparitions of it looming over your head.
		I got duped into believing Mars would be spectacular with a backyard telescope, I used a StarMax 127 Mak-Cass on three occasions, starting with a 25mm, Mars appeared as a pink salmon dot in the sky.
	www.badastronomy.com /bablog?p=128 (1812 words)

	Mars Attacks the Web /WW August 18, 1997
		NASA is getting ready for Mars Global Surveyor, another probe that will arrive at Mars Sept. 11, orbit for 4 months, and map the entire surface of the planet.
		On the busiest day, July 8, the Mars Pathfinder sites combined for almost 47 million hits, which was more than double the traffic of any other Web site event.
		Pathfinder was about to land on Mars, and engineers at NASA suddenly discovered a looming problem.
	mars.sgi.com /MPF/press/webweek/19970818-mars.html (1006 words)

	SPACE.com -- Mars Attacks? Protecting Earth From Off-World Infections
		Groups of experts have focused on preventing uncontrolled release of Mars sample material into the terrestrial environment, ways to examine a Martian sample for evidence of live organisms and steps to determine if the sample poses any threat to terrestrial life forms and Earths biosphere.
		Early concept of robotic Mars surface sampler spacecraft, built to return rock and soil specimens from the fourth planet.
		NASA scientists are hoping that a robotic Mars return-sample mission may be lofted in 2011.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/missions/mars_contamination_010404.html (1081 words)

	Tim Burton's Mars Attacks
		We'll be watching "Mars Attacks!," the Tim Burton all-star alien comedy, and the 1956 cult classic Forbidden Planet, starring Leslie Nielsen, Robby the Robot, and the gorgeous Anne Francis --I've had a crush on her all my life and here she is, ON THE SHOW tonight!
		Anyhow, let's start our first movie, "Mars Attacks!," the story of how the Joker, James Bond, Tom Jones, Foxy Brown, Ed Grimley and Queen Amidala defend the Earth from little green men that quack like ducks while turning people into steaming green skeletons.
		STAN: Yeah, but there's an indication that in the past there was water there, and if that was the case and there was probably life there, the question is what happened to the life, you know.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/nn/MarsAttacks.html (4350 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Mars Attacks!
		For while Tim Burton's "Mars Attacks!" manages to capture much of the anarchic wit of its bubble gum origins, it also has about as much structure, characterisation, and plot as a piece of said chewing stuff.
		"Mars Attacks!" wants to be the "Dr Strangelove" of alien B-movies, but isn't up to the challenge.
		Trading cards are not normally the first port of call for Hollywood development-types looking for a premise for a film - and perhaps that's just as well.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/06/21/mars_attacks_1996_review.shtml (353 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Mars Attacks!
		Mars Attacks Gallery contains pictures of all the cards in the original set, and you'll see that the production designers stuck very closely to the original art.
		The Martians have such life and personality that it is very easy to believe that the creatures are real, and that there's a branch of the Screen Actors Guild on Mars.
		The cards told the tale of Martians attempting to conquer Earth because their planet was on the verge of a core meltdown.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/marsattacks.php (860 words)

	David Davies’ Weblog » 2004 » January
		Above is the first ever picture of the surface of Mars taken by the NASA Viking 1 lander on July 20, 1976.
		If live is discovered on Mars, even the most primitive life, it's be the single most important discovery in the history of human exploration.
		The picture is of Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, a region of the planet thought to have been carved out by flowing water.
	david.davies.name /weblog/2004/01/22.html (1678 words)

	m3review: MARS ATTACKS!
		Property of the Topps Company." Topps distributed the "Mars Attacks!" cards in 1962, pulling them after only a few months because they were considered too "intense" at the time.
		I forsee a new series of "Mars Attacks!" cards -- and lunch boxes and action figures and maybe even a hockey team -- invading in the near future.
		The opening credits include "Based on MARS ATTACKS!
	mdoyle.com /m3review/1996/marsattacks.htm (838 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Mars Attacks! / DVD-Video
		MARS ATTACKS is the perfect example of the movie which has to be seen several times in order to appreciate all the details the director has hidden in it.
		Although this film is not a classic like War of the Worlds or as powerful as Independence Day, Mars Attacks!
		However, this 1996 madcap parody is delightfully humorous and is a jammed pack and star-studded tongue in cheek satire.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=64&partner_id=29346865 (441 words)

	JPL News -- Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status
		JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Additional information about the project is available from JPL at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at http://athena.cornell.edu.
		The transmissions came during a communication window about 90 minutes after Spirit woke up for the morning on Mars.
		The signal lasted for 10 minutes at a data rate of 10 bits per second.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/2004/29.cfm (137 words)

	retroCRUSH: The barely legal pleasure palace
		One of the single coolest mayhem filled adventures of all time is contained in the 1962 Mars Attacks trading cards from Topps.
		They were only available for a short time in stores when they first appeared, as their overly graphic depictions of violent Martian destruction didn't impress early 60s mothers very well.
		The first 55 are from the original series, while the last portion of the set below were modern addition cards created in the late 90s.
	www.retrocrush.com /archive/marsattacks (194 words)

	CAP Report MAR-0062, MARS ATTACKS! (1996)
		The final score of 46 for Mars Attacks places the movie eight points into the scoring range representing R-rated movies of the comparative baseline database of 33 movies: R is 54 and below, PG-13 is 67 to 55.
		The final score of 46 for Mars Attacks (PG-13) would seem of late that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has laxed its acceptance criteria.
		The exact same numeric analysis model that was used for determining the scoring ranges for the 33 movies of the comparative baseline database (ten R movies, ten PG-13 movies, ten PG movies, and three G movies) was used for this movie.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/marsattacks/marsattacks.htm (722 words)

	Mars Attacks - Comedy Movie Reviews
		Mars Attacks : Three (or more) creatures (Martians) from another planet (Mars) visit (attack) Earth and cause chaos (destroy everything in their path).
		The Serpent And The Rainbow / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars / Stephen King's Sleepwalkers
		The Eyes Of Laura Mars / 8MM / Bitter Moon
	www.moviesvideos.com /showthread.php?t=524 (307 words)

	Review: Mars Attacks!
		In the face of the attack, the Commander-in-Chief is not-so-ably assisted by a bumbling staff, which includes a sex-obsessed speech writer (Martin Short), a "nuke-em-now" general (Rod Steiger) and his peace-loving counterpart (Paul Winfield), and a clueless scientist (Pierce Brosnan) who knows nothing but says a lot.
		Although the two films were developed separately and during the same time frame, the temptation exists to say that this film is satirizing the earlier blockbuster.
		Meanwhile, in Vegas, the Martians encounter real estate mogul Art Land (Nicholson), his alcoholic-turned-spiritualist wife, Barbara (Annette Bening), a rude gambler (Danny DeVito) who could care less about the invasion, a former heavyweight champion (Jim Brown) trying to get back together with his wife (Pam Grier), and the irrepressible singer, Tom Jones (himself).
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/mars.html (858 words)

	Mars Attacks! - @forums
		Mars Attacks wasn't a very good movie, but that is undoubtedly one of the best lines in movie history.
		Of course, Bush's Mars expedition makes much more sense when you evaluate it as a policy initiative from the US Defense Department -- it's entirely consistent with his diplomatic track record to date:
		Errr about Bush's Mars expedition, well I have absolutely no opinion...
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=221962 (545 words)

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