Mars Polar Lander: Lost but now found?
By Ron Cowen
Minutes before the Mars Polar Lander was expected to touch down on the Red Planet on Dec. 3, 1999, NASA lost contact with the spacecraft (SN: 3/4/00, p. 159: Available to subscribers at No signal from Mars Polar Lander).
Now, researchers think that they have located the remains of the craft and its parachute, Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego reports in the July Sky & Telescope.