Mars Polar Lander - Artist view - Mars Polar Lander spaceprobe - Artist view -...

Mars Polar Lander - Artist view - Mars Polar Lander spaceprobe - Artist view - The American Mars Polar Lander probe, launched on January 3, 1999, was scheduled to land in December 1999 near the southern polar cap of Mars. Contact with the probe was interrupted on 3 December 1999, when it entered the Martian atmosphere. The Mars Polar Lander is shown on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft was launched in january 1999 to Mars to land near the southern polar cap in December 1999 and carry out a three - month mission to search for traces of subsurface water in this frozen, layered terrain. The contact with the spacecraft was lost on December 9, 1999, shortly after it entered the Martian atmosphere