All good satelites must come to an end

So, after spending a few lectures talking about failed spacecraft, it is good to know that our good old Global Surveyor "succumbed to ...a complex sequence of events..." Take that, all you NASA nay-sayers! No failed metric-standard conversion, or parachute jostling for the Surveyor, no sir! It took 10 years and huge failures to take this baby down! RIP Mars Global Surveyor.