NASA Loses Mars Surveyor: Good News or Bad News?

BRANSON Power-User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Ybor City, Florida, USA Posts: 105 Good Answers: 1	NASA Loses Mars Surveyor: Good News or Bad News? 11/24/2006 10:31 AM
	Planet mapping surveyor probe missing for more than 2 weeks! This 10 year old probe has exceeded its life expectancy by 8 years. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter failed to spot the probe on Monday night. This probe gave us the first views of massive dust storms, gullies and revealed evidence of Mars having had a magnetic field. If the life expectancy of our technology keeps increasing dramatically, will space become cluttered with old satellites or do the they at some point reenter our atmosphere and burn up? http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/ __________________ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
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