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Renewed search for Mars Polar Lander

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Artists rendition of Mars Polar Lander in 3-D

Artist's rendition of Mars Polar Lander in 3-D

It’s summer again in the southern hemisphere of Mars, so we’re continuing our mosaic of the landing ellipse for the lost Mars Polar Lander. ESP_013368_1035 was the first of the new images to be released, and we’ve gotten a lot of people asking where to send their candidates. You can either contact us directly, or add to the comments in our previous blog post about the search.

The Unmanned Spaceflight forums have a long discussion on the previous search efforts. Many candidates were proposed, and the community’s discussion about them is quite enlightening.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society also started a coordinated search effort last year. I don’t know if that effort is still ongoing, but her page on how to use HiRISE images in the search is still a great resource. It includes examples of known hardware, cosmic ray hits and other artifacts, and more tips on searching.

In addition to the list of images on the previous blog entry, these new images have been released: (we’ll try to keep this list up to date as more are released)

Thanks for all your interest, and good luck searching!

9/2/09: ETA new images released in September PDS release.

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