Do. 1  Do spend some time understanding the point of what you are about to write. 2  Do make lists. 3  Do use an appropriate tone. 4  Do write several drafts of each paragraph. 5  Do compare your first draft copy with other material from previous issues of the journal or website.
Mars is so far away in fact that it takes radio signals quite a long time to get from the spacecraft back to Earth. During Curiosity EDL, this delay will be 13 minutes, 48 seconds, about mid-way between the minimum delay of around 4 minutes and the maximum of around 24 minutes.
Torg (the Martian robot) is an anagram of Gort, the robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Lost in Space: The Keeper: Part 1 (1966) (TV Episode) Michael Rennie again plays an alien with Biblical attributes, who says he learned Earth languages from listening to radio signals.