Nasa waits on new Mars search

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

Nasa scientists say it will be the weekend at the earliest before they know if they have made contact with the Mars Polar Lander (MPL). Hopes of finding the spacecraft were raised this week after a review of data collected by a radio antenna at Stanford University showed a blip in the information record that just might have been MPL trying to contact Earth.