Sky Wonders: Mars Lander Found??

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May 06, 2005

Mars Lander Found??

It is possible that the Mars Polar Lander has been finally found?

It appears that upon reexamining images taken in 1999 and 2000 from the Mars Orbital Camera aboard the Mars Global Surveyor, planetary scientist Michael Malin may have discovered what appears to be impact marks and the deployed parachute from the MPL spacecraft lost in December 1999.

Here are the complete articles from the web:

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1509_1.asp

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/05/06/mars.lander.ap/index.html

Dan

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