We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.

This week’s Mini Failure is about the Mars Climate Orbiter. Due to unit conversion errors, a space probe crashed into the Martian surface, a really, expensive mistake, setting back Mars data collection for years. 

Episode Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbiter/in-depth/

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