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January 4, 2004--At about 8:30 a.m. Pacific time today, Mark Davis, producer of the NOVA program 'MARS Dead or Alive,' which airs tonight with a near-live update from mission control, called into NOVA's offices from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The atmosphere at mission control is electric, he says, and had been ever since the first signal came back shortly after the rover Spirit successfully landed on the martian surface yesterday. Here's what he had to say before rushing off to edit the final sequence of tonight's NOVA program:"