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Last week, NASA revealed the cause: One part of the orbiter's navigation system was speaking in English units and another in metric.
(This is not the only simple mistake leading to a big one in the news today: the papers all cover NASA's admission that the reason the Mars Orbiter was lost last week was that some engineers did calculations for the mission using pounds and feet, while others used the metric system.)
However, recent observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter indicate that significant amounts of water ice exist at or near the surface of Mars [ 15 ] . Since transient temperatures above freezing occur at some locations on Mars [ 16 ] , this water likely would be present at least briefly in the liquid form.
A more pleasant story was the first successful circumnavigation of the world by two men in a balloon, the Breitling Orbiter 3. Their achievement was generally received with enthusiasm--the Times of London said mankind should rejoice and El País of Madrid that it had been the world's last great adventure--but there were also dissenting voices.
If not, the party's over, making this the second failed Mars mission in three months, following the September disappearance of the Mars Climate Orbiter due to a merry mix-up over that pesky metric system.