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Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by aguywithamum on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:44AM (#9197731)
Yeah, that's in reference to the failure of Beagle 2. It's on the page that was linked by Someone1234 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...).
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Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by TorKlingberg on Friday March 13, 2015 @01:16PM (#9198306)
The Beagle 2 and Mars Climate Orbiter are not the same thing. It is unknown why Beagle 2 failed and there is no reason to believe it was due to any unit mismatch. It may be that two of the solar panels failed to deploy.
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Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by warkdarrior on Friday March 13, 2015 @04:40PM (#9199907)
It's well known that the metric solar panels failed to deploy. The imperial solar panels opened successfully, but that did not generate enough electricity to keep going.
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