Nine months to Mars. One unit mismatch.
In 1999, Mars Climate Orbiter was lost after imperial and metric impulse units were mixed in its navigation data. The checks failed to catch the mismatch.
Source: NASA/JPL — https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-climate-orbiter/
Archival images and Mars visualization: NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/KSC and NASA Scientific Visualization Studio. Trajectory graphic is a schematic; no crash footage is shown.
AI narration. Original background accompaniment.
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