NASA: Mars Surveyor Was Doomed by Humans
April 13th, 2007 By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
(AP) -- Human error triggered a cascade of events that caused the battery to fail on the Mars Global Surveyor last year, according to a preliminary report released Friday.
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