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THE CAMERA MOVES
IN CLOSER, into the very eyepiece of
the telescope (at the barbecue),
and we see...
MARS
Just a small,
HAZY RED DISK at this magnification.
We HOLD on it, as we do, we see the
haziness start to disappear. As we continue
to HOLD, we begin to notice that Mars
is growing bigger and bigger, and we
realize that we are racing across the
vast void between the two planets...
MARS CONTINUES
TO GROW. It soon fills the screen. Still
we keep SPEEDING towards it. We BLAST
through the high wispy clouds and GO
DOWN, straight towards the rust-orange
surface...
The CLOSER we
get, the more surface detail comes into
view. Towering jagged CLIFFS, mysterious
CRATERS, and strangest of all, trails
of bright WATER-ICE FOG, writhing like
ghostly snakes through dry arroyos...
The same sort of fantastic landscape
we saw earlier, in Woody's 3D simulation,
only now with much more intense clarity,
richer colors, stunning light.
And finally we
see SMALL SHINY DOTS, which get brighter
as we plummet, resolving into the manmade
structures of MARS ONE BASE CAMP.
We see a DOT
moving neat the base camp compound.
It's an ASTRONAUT in an EVA spacesuit.
We head STRAIGHT DOWN-for him. Just
as it looks like we'll smash into him,
the speed of our decent SLOWS, and as
the CAMERA DIVES the last few feet it
TILTS UP to look thorough the helmet
faceplate of...
LUC GODDARD
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