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1. Mission to Mars
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2037, the SIMs make their fourth mission to the Red Planet. The mission is to find a site for a second manned base by testing for water and other essential materials. En-route to Mars the SIMs fly into a shower of uncharted metal objects, which turn out to be part of the Mars Observer from way back in 1992.
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2. Mission to the Moon
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2041, the SIMs make their sixth mission to the Moon. They are scouting for sites for another manned base. Hover has a special task - to search for Helium-3, which is urgently needed for fusion reactors to stop an energy crisis on Earth.
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3. Mission to Halley's Comet
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2062 Halley's Comet swings in from outer space. It sweeps round the Sun and close to Earth. The SIMs are sent on a mission to intercept it. They have to fly up through its tail of gas and dust, and try to land.
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4. Mission to Venus
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2042, the SIMs set off on their 2nd mission to Venus. They are very aware that their first landing ended in failure. The tremendous heat and pressure caused Wheels to overheat and Legs to buckle. The mission had to be aborted. This time they are equipped with special cooling systems and extra strengthening.
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5. Mission to the Sun
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January 1, 2000 |
The SIMs' hottest mission yet, an operation to repair an unmanned space observatory circling very close to the sun. From there Hover will plunge deep into the solar corona, where the temperature is millions of degrees, far hotter even than the Sun's surface.
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6. Mission to Europa
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2047, a large meteoroid strikes Europa, the smallest of Jupiter's moons. The SIMs mount an emergency mission. They aim to reach this strange ice-covered world in time to use the cracks and fissures created by the meteoroid, to explore the centre of Europa.
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7. Mission to the Asteroids
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January 1, 2000 |
Out beyond the orbit of Mars lies the Asteroid Belt, thousands of small worlds - none larger than 600 miles across. In 2044 the SIMs have set out to discover which asteroids have scarce mineral deposits.
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8. Mission to the Comet Swarm
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2064 the SIMs travel 4 billion miles to the outer regions of the solar systems to the ?celestial deep freeze where the comets of the future are stored'. These frozen rock bodies were formed during the genesis of the solar system. If a collision or a shift in gravity deflects them, they fall towards the sun?
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9. Mission to Jupiter
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2072 the Super Intelligent Machines voyaged to explore this giant ball of gas, with swirling clouds and hurricanes which can blow up to 300 miles an hour. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system - three hundred times the mass of Earth and 1,000 times its volume.
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10. Mission to a Black Hole
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January 1, 2000 |
A routine trip to Mars, to research a potential site for a base, develops into an extraordinary journey to a Black Hole, one of the Universe's most mysterious phenomena - created when stars explode, and set up a region in space into which matter is sucked never to return.
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11. Mission to Io
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January 1, 2000 |
As the end of the 21st Century approaches the SIMs mission to Jupiter's moon, Io, will be their most hazardous. Io's surface is the most deadly in the solar system. The radiation levels are highly toxic. Random and unpredictable lava flows erupt. The SIMs are specially equipped to resist Io.
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12. Mission to the Orion Star Factory
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January 1, 2000 |
The SIMs head towards Jupiter and its moons. After an eight month voyage they land on Ganymead, a moon of Jupiter. Throughout the journey they continually gather data on the Orion Star Factory. In the Orion Nebula stars are created and powered up within a mass of gases which are highly toxic to man.
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13. Mission to Saturn and its Rings
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January 1, 2000 |
The SIMs voyage to explore Saturn, and its rings in the year 2080. Most beautiful of the planets, Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun, and is orbited by nine moons and moonlets
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14. Mission to the Space Observatory
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2045 the SIMs journey to an immense Space Observatory, a million miles from Earth. It is strategically placed beyond Earth's atmosphere where it can detect and explore planets, stars and galaxies. The SIMs have to modify the radio telescope and install new instruments.
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15. Mission to Mercury
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2058 Mercury reaches its closest orbit to the Sun. At the space station the SIMs receive a special protective coating to guard against the heat. The flight path to Mercury takes them past Venus where probes are precision launched into the gaseous atmosphere to measure wind speeds and temperature.
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16. Mission to Titan
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January 1, 2000 |
2077. Titan, Saturn's Moon, is the second largest moon in the solar system and the only one known to have an atmosphere. A world blanketed by an orange haze of choking carbon clouds, and below a solid surface covered in ice and dotted with lakes. Little has changed since it was formed 4 billion years ago.
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17. Mission to the Earth-Threatening Asteroid
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January 1, 2000 |
Astronomers locate a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It will cause massive destruction. The asteroid is half a mile across and hurtling towards Earth at 10,000 mph. The ever-present cosmic threat is now an imminent disaster. The SIMs are launched on a mission to save the Earth.
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18. Mission to Triton
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January 1, 2000 |
Triton is three billion miles and one year's flying away. It is a weird intensely cold world of ice, three quarters the size of Earth's Moon. This mission will take the SIMs beyond Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus to the farthermost large planet - Neptune and on to Neptune's largest moon Triton.
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19. Mission to Uranus
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January 1, 2000 |
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun and two billion miles from Earth. The SIMs mission is to explore Miranda, one of Uranus's moons, a world of awesome cliffs with vertical rock faces which rise five miles high.
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20. Mission to the S.E.T.I. Telescope
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January 1, 2000 |
The SIMs modify a space telescope and construct a new telescope on the dark side of the moon, with the aim of searching deeper into space for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
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21. Mission to Neptune
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2082 the SIMs returned to Neptune with the objective of exploring its turbulent atmosphere. Hover was specially reinforced so that he could withstand up to five hundred times the pressure on Earth and plunge deep into Neptune's clouds, battered by the most violent winds in the solar system.
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22. Mission to the Snows of Mars
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January 1, 2000 |
In 2086, the SIMs take off to Mars' moon, Phobos to build Space 1, a base for missions to outer solar systems and across to Mars. The cargo shuttle has gone ahead with heavy equipment. As they travel through space the main data transmitter fails - no information can be received from control on Mars or Earth.
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23. Mission to Pluto
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January 1, 2000 |
Beyond Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune lies Pluto and its moon Charon. Pluto is the smallest of the planets. The SIMs aim to discover the origins of Pluto and Charon. It is an eight billion mile round trip. Earthlink will be powered by an Anti-matter Propulsion Engine, (A.P.E) to reduce the journey time.
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24. Mission to the Moon's South Pole
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January 1, 2000 |
The SIMs are sent on a special investigation to explore the South Pole of the Moon for ice deposits. New sources of water are desperately needed to support the colonies on the Moon. Water is the key to long haul space travel because hydrogen and oxygen can be split to provide fuel for long distance journeys.
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25. Mission to the Milky Way
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January 1, 2000 |
Towards the end of the 21st Century the SIMs had explored most of our Solar systems. Now their investigations would spread out to encompass the whole of the Milky Way Galaxy. Their missions would range out far beyond our sun and its planets to reach for the stars.
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26. Mission to Remote Galaxies
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January 1, 2000 |
The frontiers of space exploration are extending far beyond our solar system. The SIMs assemble a giant star ship with advanced rocket technology and a super intelligent robot to travel light years into remote galaxies. To reach star flight velocity they will use anti-matter to fuel the rockets.
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