Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Real Story Behind Mars Global Surveyor

So, remember when we said that the Surveyor fell out due to "complex errors"? Well, that might still be true, but apparently, there is a new culprit, I wonder what it could be...Yup, you guessed it, this article says that human error was the source of a sequence of events that eventually ended in the loss of our most durable, most loveable Martian satelite. Apparently, some engineers uploaded "faulty" software that shutdown the solar panels on Surveyor, and it only went downhill from there. R.I.P. Mars Global Surveyor, man-kind has let you down again.

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