 | The imperial units error that downed a multi-million-dollar Mars probe
6 October 2019
20 years ago, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter dived too deep and was crushed in Mars’s
atmosphere. The reason? A mix-up between metric and imperial measurements
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