Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft
by PhantomGremlin on Saturday April 30, 2016 @07:04PM
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And before there was an Anti-Lander Defense System, there was another method employed by the Martians to hide things from our eyes:[1]
On November 14th 1971 NASA's Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to successfully orbit another planet.
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Except what came back ... were not pictures of the intricate canyons, craters, and mountains of Mars, but pictures of a blanketed world, a dust enshrouded mystery. Mariner 9 had arrived in the midst of one of the greatest global storms humans have ever witnessed on Mars.
On November 14th 1971 NASA's Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to successfully orbit another planet.
...
Except what came back ... were not pictures of the intricate canyons, craters, and mountains of Mars, but pictures of a blanketed world, a dust enshrouded mystery. Mariner 9 had arrived in the midst of one of the greatest global storms humans have ever witnessed on Mars.
[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-great...