NASA picks rover option for Mars '03; may send two in search for water

NASA has decided to send an advanced rover to Mars in 2003 instead of an orbiter with a high-resolution camera, and may send two of them to press the search for water if the funding is available, the U.S. space agency announced yesterday. Unlike the retrorocket approach that failed to bring the Mars...

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