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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.
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.
Last week, NASA revealed the cause: One part of the orbiter's navigation system was speaking in English units and another in metric.
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.
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.