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In September, NASA lost its Climate Orbiter, which either crashed or skipped off into space after a failure to convert navigational instructions from English to metric units sent the Orbiter fatally close to the Red Planet.
Just Another Day at the Office: Among the findings of the NASA investigation into the loss of the $125 million Mars Orbiter earlier this year is the following: "There was a widespread perception among the Mars Climate Orbiter team that 'orbiting Mars is routine,' which caused the team to not pay enough attention to the risks of interplanetary spaceflight" ( LAT ).
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.
In the Journal , mathematician John Allen Paulos notes that no amount of technological advance will repeal Murphy's Law--hence last week's loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter, which crashed after being fed data in pounds rather than newtons.
The LAT and NYT front NASA's realization Thursday that the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft has probably burned up in Mars' atmosphere after flying too close to the planet.