Mars Global Surveyor

[YouBelieveWHAT?]

Oh dear,

It seems that NASA really have lost contact with this orbiter. How sad.

The only bright spot is that it lasted eight years past it's "sell by date", and that's excellence by any standard!

When you consider the long lives of those two buggies on the surface, NASA must be doing something right

So - how long before Hoagland starts telling everybody that MGS had just found clear evidence of Martians - a huge "HG Wells was here!" sign in the desert, for example - so NASA had to kill it?

YBW

 

[andyandy]

Mgs Rip

 

[Brian Jackson]

Hats off to NASA for an amazing job with the MGS project. It's because of these missions, I believe, that it will one day be an antique bit of history in the Smithsonian back on Earth. Time will tell.

 

[YouBelieveWHAT?]

Agreed

YBW

 

[Cuddles]

This is why I love space exploration. At home, I can buy an appliance that just has to sit in my house that is supposed to last for 5 years minimum, and I have to have it fixed after a couple of years. And yet NASA can send something to a place we know very little about that is supposed to last for only a couple of years and actually lasts over 5 times longer. Apparently it really is rocket science.