What ensues is a strange blend of manhunt and tone poem, in which even the most brutal characters seem rapt in the face of red earth and endless sky.
Just as Mars -- a desert planet -- gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
We travel for hours through broad plains of spinifex and red-earth anthills and see few other vehicles and no human settlements except, at the end of long rough dirt tracks, temporary Roy Hill rail-construction camps.
At the end of this time, the earth would elope with one of the red dwarfs, which are extremely long-lived stars and would keep it at least feebly warm for billions more years.
For now, the workers labour in a cloud of red dust, stirred up by the earth-moving equipment.
This fabulous value starts things off hints of tobacco and earth, then things start to warm up with notes of bright red raspberry and cherry fruit.
In a paper in this week's Nature, John Harries and his colleagues describe their analysis of the longwave infra-red radiation leaving the earth.
The fertile alluvial plains that stretched almost endlessly outside the windows during the first half of the journey give way to an undulating red earth dotted with small rocky hills, scrub bushes and slender trees.
The story itself revolves around a world blackened by ash which pours perpetually from a series of volcanoes turning the earth brown and the sky red.
Its texture and chemistry set it apart from all previous objects picked up off the surface of Earth but known to originate on the Red Planet.
An otherwise lovely 2009 Stefano Mancinelli Lacrima de Morro, a red wine from the Marche, had delicious flavors of earth and sour cherry and a snappy acidity, but its floral aromas were so pronounced it would be like pairing a plate of pasta with a bottle of my grandmother's perfume.
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But if we are going to go there, and dive deep into another Boston season of rage, I would like to take the controls of the Spaceship of Crazy, fly it briefly down to Planet Earth and remind Red Sox fans, so furious about this sub-.500 campaign, that they still don't have a lot to complain about.
Barns, rooftops and furrowed earth are reduced to broad geometric planes of color in "Red Soil" (1924) by Oscar Bluemner.
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As the road climbed into the forested folds of Misiones's central sierras, the colors seemed unnaturally bright, the saturated emerald of grass and leaves standing out against the earth's deep, rusty red.
As red earth gave way to gray and what looked like a shoreline, veins of a powdery white mineral appeared in the ground.
Continue on to Mobile and a Mitsubishi Electric plant is emerging from the red earth and, some time next year, will account for 6% of the world's supply of polycrystalline silicon for compact discs and microchips.
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So how on earth did the producers get this incredible rising star for a remake of the 1984 film Red Dawn?
Nor will astronauts really be able to talk to anyone, either -- at least not on Earth -- mainly because of a 44-minute communication delay between the Blue and Red planets, "which means you can't have a nice chat with your kids, " said Kanas.
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They were all blasted off the Red Planet by some asteroid or cometary impact, and then spent millions of years travelling through space before falling to Earth.
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