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Remember that face on Mars discovered by Viking? Well, it has been photographed again by the latest satellite we sent to the Red Planet, the Mars Global Surveyor. Mars also has another face -- a violent one. Click here to see The violent face of Mars. Two news media articles have also been written by the Associated Press, recently, as well. Remember When: Mariner 1 Venus probe loses its way: 1962 A probe launched from Cape Canaveral was set to go to Venus. After takeoff, the unmanned rocket carrying the probe went off course, and NASA had to blow up the rocket to avoid endangering lives on earth. NASA later attributed the error to a faulty line of Fortran code. The report stated, "Somehow a hyphen had been dropped from the guidance program loaded aboard the computer, allowing the flawed signals to command the rocket to veer left and nose down...Suffice it to say, the first U.S. attempt at interplanetary flight failed for want of a hyphen." The vehicle cost more than $80 million, prompting Arthur C. Clarke to refer to the mission as "the most expensive hyphen in history."
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