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Posted by Lydia on June 12th, 2008

… to help search for the Mars Polar Lander. Remember the Mars Polar Lander which crashed on descent, December 3, 1999? NASA needs help locating it. If you think you have what it takes to search through eighteen 1.6 billion pixel images and your computer monitor has the capacity required, and you believe you can successfully peruse each image containing more than 1,200 screens of monotonous Martian terrain without exactly knowing where to look for possible wreckage, you just may be the one to successfully locate a smudge representing parts of the outer shell and/or something resembling a parachute. Sign up now at Mars Polar Lander

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Sugeevan Shan said,

Have time :)


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