Key Scientist Says Mars Polar Lander May Be Alive

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

There’s a 50-50 chance the missing-in-action Mars Polar Lander is resting intact on the surface of the Red Planet. A key scientist on the project named those odds Wednesday, based on reports from radio telescope experts at Stanford University that possible candidate signals from the $165 million lander may have been detected. Follow-up work could verify that it is alive, but sickly.