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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.
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.
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.
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 ).