These are some of the highest regions of the planet because they sit on top of southern hemisphere terrain, which is higher than corresponding terrain in the north.

Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere, in regions such as India and Africa, drove global mobile phone sales 19 percent higher year-over-year. Emerging markets accounted for one half of total worldwide sales in 2005.

We don't want to be hauling cement to Mars. That's very expensive. Better to know what we can make on the surface of the planet.

It's just going to knock your socks off when we get these instruments opened up at Mars.

We'll begin to image the surface and look at its composition with detail that we've just not been able to do before.

Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who assumes every body in earshot knows all about his parents and history and wants to hear an update about them at every opportunity. He looks young, but still manages to act 65.