Glitch will cost Phoenix lander its descent images
An electronics glitch on NASA's Phoenix Mars lander that wasn't discovered until final preflight testing at Kennedy Space Center will prevent it from collecting a series of downward-looking images as it descends toward the Red Planet's north pole next May. Test engineers found that an interface card...
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