Re: nasa-celebrates-successful-mars-landing

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From: Phil Hobbs
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:33

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Jordan wrote:
> 
> On 08/08/12 23:10, Robert Wessel wrote:
> 
> >
> > Success is relative.  Mars 3 did indeed land on Mars in 1971, but
> > failed some 15 seconds after.  It transmitted a partial frame in that
> > time, but the image contains nothing recognizable.
> >
> 
> So only 99% success then.

I don't know that I've ever met a customer who would consider that a
success.  You work for local government, maybe? ;)

It definitely belongs in the category of heartbreaking near-misses,
though.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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