NASA has a new lead in its search for the billion-dollar Mars Observer,
the probe that was due to survey the topography of the Red Planet, and which
was poised to enter Martian orbit when its radio transmitter fell silent
last month.
This note was received recently by scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California. However, according to NASA spokeswoman
Paula Clegget-Haleim, the Martian ransom hypothesis is not among those being
considered by the independent panel investigating the ill-fated mission.
