Saturday, April 14, 2007

Human Error is cause of Surveyor failure

NASA: Mars Surveyor was doomed by humans (AP)

This artist rendering released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows the Mars Global Surveyor in orbit around Mars. According to a preliminary report released Friday, April 13, 2007, human error triggered a cascade of events that caused the battery to fail on the Mars Global Surveyor last year. An internal NASA board determined that power loss likely doomed the spacecraft after a decade of meticulously mapping the Red Planet. (AP Photo/NASA, Jet Propulsion Labs)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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