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Mars Polar Lander Space Probe
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The Mars Polar Lander was part of the Mars Surveyor '98 program, which consisted of two spacecraft launched separately, the Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) and the Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander). Mars Polar Lander also conveyed the Deep Space 2 surface-penetrator mission to Mars. The two missions were designed to study the Martian weather, climate, and water and carbon dioxide budget, in order to understand the reservoirs, behavior, and atmospheric role of volatiles and to search for evidence of long-term and episodic climate changes.
The last telemetry from Mars Polar Lander was sent just prior to atmospheric entry on December 3, 1999. No further signals have been received from the lander, the cause of this loss of communication is not known.
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