Polar pioneers

1999-11-24T00:00:00

The two piggyback microprobes aboard NASA's Mars Polar Lander (MPL) have been named Amundsen and Scott after the famous first South Pole explorers early this century. The microprobes, flying the second Deep Space mission in NASA's new Millennium programme, will smash into an area close to the Martian south pole ...

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