Since the initial product viewing, almost all professional reviewers have said the Surface is neat, but not fantastically so.

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The intervening weeks will be spent in a manoeuvre called aerobraking, which involves using the air-resistance of the thin Martian atmosphere to change the elliptical initial orbit into a circular one from which the planet's surface can be examined in detail.

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The initial estimates that were done used overhead photography to measure the amount of oil on the surface, right?

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This is obviously less than what Microsoft planning with the Surface RT, which had an initial shipment volume of four million units.

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Initial tests looking for "markers" on the surface of the bacterium showed it to be the O104 strain, which the World Health Organization said was rare, had been seen in humans before, but never in an outbreak.

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The initial "push" upward by the cold front on that balloon filled with surface air is like a child letting a helium-filled balloon go -- it just keeps rising.

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