NASA has stopped searching for the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft after spending several weeks trying to detect weak UHF signals

NASA has stopped searching for the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft after spending several weeks trying to detect weak UHF signals. Officials now doubt that signals received Jan. 4 were from the lander, though results are not definitive.

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