A group of scholars has found a surface of discontinuity on the planet Mars which is believed to be faults, Shigenori Maruyama, a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, said Saturday.
December 3rd, 2003
Japan’s probe may contaminate Mars Japan Today
Space experts are growing anxious that Japan may contaminate Mars when its beleaguered probe Nozomi reaches the Red Planet with a slight chance of collision on Dec 14, years behind schedule and plagued by technical problems. They say there is a roughly 1% possibility of Nozomi, Japan’s first Mars orbiter, impacting Mars due to malfunctions with its electrical system and numerous other woes.