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Published online 22 November 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061120-6
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Goodbye Mars Global Surveyor
NASA scientists may give up hope on old craft, but welcome new one.
NASA scientists say they may have to bid farewell to a dear old friend — Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). NASA lost contact with the craft on 2 November as it was coming out from behind Mars, just five days before the tenth anniversary of its launch.
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