Listening for the Buzz of Thin Windy Air

Posted by jburk to Mars Polar Lander at October 14, 1999 12:00 PM

Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory still expect to hear the sounds of Mars when the Mars Polar Lander arrives. Although they are scrambling to redesign the command sequences for most instruments aboard spacecraft, the Mars microphone isn't giving them anything to worry about.