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Since the most newsworthy piece of the mission was its loss, the crash should be mentioned, at least in passing, in the opening paragraph. 76.123.145.220 ( talk) 00:00, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Why so darned much, unending detail about what was hoped to happen on a busted mission? Can't that be whittled down a lot? Gene Nygaard 23:24, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a category of related articles for this thread that list all lost spacecraft or satellites and the reason they were lost? I would be interested in seeing how many space vehicles were lost (in space) since the beginning of the space race, what the causes were and what were the costs.. -- Dave Skiff
Communication with the lander was lost prior to atmospheric entry. This is a misleading statement. The comms between Earth and MPL was cut after it oriented itself for reentry and this was obviously by design, so no comms was "lost". The correct statement would be that MPL failed to establish communications after it landed. --Borek Lupoměský, 6 February 2007
The section discussing the microphone includes the text, "The microphone used speech recognition from technology Sensory, Inc." I am at a loss why this is here, as there is no need for speech recognition on this microphone setup. Is this a link plant by Sensory, Inc. to get some PR? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timmholt ( talk • contribs) 20:31, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Some of the text, if not more, was copied from : http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/HAS/cirr/em/8/8.cfm Popher 16:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
martian day is 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds long —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.13.203 ( talk) 06:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Numerous but perhaps non-authoritative sources claim the crash was caused by incorrrect units of measurement (imperialos rather than the NASA-specified metric) used in the software. Is there any truth to this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.175.45.156 ( talk) 12:06, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
Beagle 2 was found (partially deployed) - MPL is larger - What effort was put into imaging the presumed crash site, and what was seen ? - Rod57 ( talk) 09:28, 23 November 2018 (UTC)