Controllers Hold Breath for Mars Polar Lander's Last Gasp

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Polar Lander at January 27, 2000 12:00 PM

A last-ditch effort to find signs of the Mars Polar Lander is underway, but it will take more than a week of analysis before members of the mission team can determine whether or not the spacecraft has tried to contact Earth, the mission's flight operations manager said Wednesday.