Faint Signals Give Hope for MPL

NASA renewed attempts to contact the Mars Polar Lander a week after giving up on Jan. 17, based on faint signals detected in post-processing of data recorded several weeks earlier (AW&ST Jan. 24, p. 32). Engineers were poring through fresh receiver data late last week, looking for more conclusive...

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