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Article #6754Re: Sea floor Planetary Protection really.
From: Ron Baalke
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 23:39
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 23:39
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In article <1hvg8sINNppt@mirror.digex.com>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes...
>I know the Mars Observer orbit was constrained under planetary protection
>guidelines to stay off the surface for X thousand years.
Mars Observer does meet this contraint and will survive in orbit until the
year 2009 with a 99.9% probability, and will survive until 2039 with a
95% probability.
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