In a message dated 99-04-04 20:19:04 EDT, jeff@ultraviolet.com (Jeff Taylor) wrote:
> Do you know if they launched a probe to Mars recently? If I remember
> correctly it would have been in the last 9 months.
That's the "Planet B" mission:
Planet-B Launched on Mars Mission</A>
http://www.spaceviews.com/1998/07/04a.html
You can find a complete chronology of Mars exploration at:
Chronology of Mars Exploration</A>
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/marschro.htm
While we're talking about Mars . . . this is an interesting little group:
Think Mars!
http://thinkmars.mit.edu/
Which makes for nice reading in light of the recent discussion of Mars colonization here.
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