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Re: nasa-celebrates-successful-mars-landing

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From: George Neuner
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:47
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On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:33:29 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

>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. 

Well, it got 100% of the way there 8-)

Problem is - it may have been sitting there completely functional
except for it's transmitter(s).

George
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