National Geographic - USA (2021-03)

that seasonally, the Martian polar caps shrank and expanded, unleashing a swath of darkness that crawled toward the equator. Som ...

by the red planet. It captured the first close-up images of the Martian surface in black and white, transforming the rich pop cu ...

Undulating Vista 2015 Dunes ripple across the landscape in a panorama made using NASA’s Curiosity rover. The dunes appear dark b ...

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soils were devoid of life, and at least one astron- omer—Carl Sagan—wasn’t ready to completely abandon the idea of even larger l ...

Mariner 6 & 7 Mariner 3 & 4 Mars Observer Mariner 8 & 9 Mars Global Surveyor Mars Pathfinder MPL/MCO Mars Odyssey Ma ...

about life on its surface. From canals to vege- tation to hotly debated hints of fossils in Mars meteorites, the red planet repe ...

But those ancient landscapes are still there, preserving a record of the planet’s infancy and a time when life could have thrive ...

1906 Lowell’s Canals As he drew on his maps (above) and described in a 1906 book, Percival Lowell believed Mars was a dying worl ...

2015 The Martian In Andy Weir’s futuristic survival tale, astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, is abandoned on Mars afte ...

BY PHILLIP MORRIS | PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN SCHOELLER 182 of those sent to death row actually were INNOCENT Since 1973, more than ...

Albert Burrell, 13 years on death row 67 ...

Derrick Jamison SENTENCED IN HAMILTON COUNTY, OH 20 YEARS IN PRISON, ALL ON DEATH ROW; EXONERATED IN 2005 Derrick Jamison was ar ...

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Ron Keine BERNALILLO COUNTY, NM 2 YEARS IN PRISON. ALL ON DEATH ROW; EXONERATED IN 1976 Ron Keine, center, 73, was one of four m ...

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A 63-year-old man named Kwame Ajamu lives walking distance from my house in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Ajamu was sentenced to ...

Now 63, Kwame Ajamu, who changed his name from Ronnie Bridgeman while in prison, was convicted in 1975 of murdering a Cleveland ...

During the past three decades, groups such as the Innocence Project have shed light on how dangerously fallible the U.S. justice ...

The plainspoken nun described how her ani- mus toward the death penalty became personal by recalling her fear of a fairly routin ...