Mars Polar Lander headed for Friday afternoon touchdown
NASA's Mars Polar Lander is headed for a Friday afternoon encounter with the planet's surface, attempting to brake with an untried system of 12 retrorocket thrusters for a soft touchdown on frozen polar terrain 11 months to the day after lifting off from the warm sands of Cape Canaveral, Fla. If all...
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