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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.
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.
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.
(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.)
This story is fronted by the NYT and LAT . The LAT goes with a quasi-local lead: NASA's determination that the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter earlier this year stemmed from gross mismanagement at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Lockheed.