NASA Foresees Smooth End for Polar Lander’s Journey

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Polar Lander at December 2, 1999 12:00 PM

Mars Polar Lander will land on Friday within a skinny swath of the red planet's "Antarctica," a mostly smooth region alternately ribbed with ridges, pocked with tiny pits, marked with gentle mounds and scored with flat gullies, new images from the Mars Global Surveyor show.