LOS ANGELES (AP) — Near the north pole of Mars, a piece of Ray Bradbury lives on, waiting to be discovered by someone in the future.

A digital copy of Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles” along with works by other science fiction legends was flown into space in 2007 by NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft, which touched down on the Martian arctic plains.

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