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This sequence of a brilliant sunrise on Mars was cut from the final film.

SUNRISE OVER MARS
Brilliant crimsons and oranges wash over the tremendous grandeur of the canyon, part of the Valles Marineris system, which stretches away from them seemingly to the infinity. In the reddish sky above, the twin moons hang. Mars at its most spectacular.

TERRI
Oh my God. Woody would've loved to see that.

She starts to cry, but sucks it up.

TERRI (CONT'S)
Can't cry. Can't cry.

MCCONNELL
You go ahead.

TERRI
Nah, if I cry, my faceplate'll fog up and I won't be able to look at a damn thing.

McConnell and Luc smile, moved by her courage. Phil is awed, excited, still staring at the landscape's features.

Luc reveals that he's discovered "great rivers, lakes and sea beds" on Mars.

I got the feeling from the script that Luc has spent his time exploring the planet Mars rather than becoming a crazed lunatic. He has survived Mars. Here, Luc is presented to be more heroic than in the movie.

Instead of the face, the after effects of the destruction of the astronauts is a "matte-black dome".

The reason for the astronauts to revisit the dome, the face in the movie, is relayed a bit more clearly in the movie:

MCCONNELL
I'm right. I KNOW I'm right. But I've got to prove it. Who knows when someone else will get back here? Of if they EVER will . You know how conservative they are at NASA. They'll say it's too dangerous, there's been too much loss of life, and go back to unmanned flights. We might be the last explorers to come here for decades. We're IT guys.

(pause)

We're it

The astronauts don't send the robot out to activate the dome with the proper sequence of codes, they just do it.

The movie makes more sense, its safer to send a robot out when they saw what happened the first time they encountered the dome.

When they reach the dome, they enter it by walking through the wall of the dome.

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