A recent analysis of images of the Red Planet may have located a lost spacecraft on Mars, according to a Department of Defense (DOD) agency. NASA, however, isn’t so sure.
On Dec. 3, 1999, NASA lost touch with the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft (SN: 3/4/00, p. 159). Controllers presume the craft crashed onto the Martian surface.
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