By Marcia Dunn CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When NASA's

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- When NASA's newest Mars lander departs Earth this weekend, it will be carrying the words and art of visionaries from Voltaire to Carl Sagan.

By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When NASA's newest Mars lander departs Earth this weekend, it will be carrying the words and art of visionaries from Voltaire to Carl Sagan.

For the first time, water has been identified in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet.

By Larry Hendricks, The Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff Sep. 5--Twenty-one men, women and children walked from the visitor center out into Labor Day sunshine at Lowell Observatory on Monday.