Talk:Mars Polar Lander

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Why so darned much, unending detail about what was hoped to happen on a busted mission? Can't that be whittled down a lot? Gene Nygaard 23:24, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. :) There are people who would actually be interested in what the mission's purpose was.--BrendanRyan 20:43, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

It still needs to be encyclopedic. Too much meaningless, unending detail about something that never happened makes it hard to see the forest for the trees. Gene Nygaard 21:56, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Would it be possible to have a category of related articles for this thread that list all lost spacecraft or satellites and the reason they were lost? I would be interested in seeing how many space vehicles were lost (in space) since the beginning of the space race, what the causes were and what were the costs.. -- Dave Skiff

Communication with the lander was lost prior to atmospheric entry. This is a misleading statement. The comms between Earth and MPL was cut after it oriented itself for reentry and this was obviously by design, so no comms was "lost". The correct statement would be that MPL failed to establish communications after it landed. --Borek Lupoměský, 6 February 2007

[edit] Plagarised

Some of the text, if not more, was copied from : http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/HAS/cirr/em/8/8.cfm Popher 16:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

US Gov't material is in the public domain, IIRC. -- 193.24.32.37 (talk) 10:35, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] martian day

martian day is 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds long —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.13.203 (talk) 06:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)