Ever since NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander in late 1999, minutes before it was to have parachuted onto the Red Planet, astronomers have been looking for the craft’s remains. Last summer, astronomers reported that a camera aboard the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor had found what seemed to be the lander’s debris (SN: 6/4/05, p.
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