... These smaller missions are part of NASA?s ongoing "faster, better, cheaper" plan for solar system exploration, and despite the failures of Mars Climate Orbiter and MarsPolarLander, the strategy appears to be working reasonably well. ...
... NASA has announced the start of a contest to name its Deep Space 2 mission's two microprobes, scheduled to be launched with the MarsPolarLander. ...
... An international collection of 34 contributors describe the technical and scientific aspects of missions such as Pathfinder, Mars Climate Orbiter, MarsPolarLander and Mars Global Surveyor. ...
... NASA has announced the start of a contest to name its Deep Space 2 mission?s two microprobes, scheduled to be launched with the MarsPolarLander. ...
... Mars demands our attention during May and June, especially with NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft set to land on Mars in July [see "The Soil of Mars," September/October 1994, p. 10]. ...
... idea of life on Mars, and, in particular, intelligent life on Mars, fed by years of ... Mars, they could see few details of its surface beyond some dark patches and white ...
... on Earth at the latitudes and longitudes where we landed spacecraft on Mars. [m,h ... the dropping of the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft on Mars using airbags, teams of ...
... Starting wit h the Viking landers in t he 1970s, through the more recent rovers, landers, and mapper missions, scientists have been studying the Mars environment to find out whether it could support liv ing things -- or if it ever has. ...
... Mars will be closer to Earth, brighter, and easier to spot in the sky in the fall of ... Mars so far, the most noteworthy being the two Viking probes in 1976, each of which ...