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Amateur Astronomers Spot Missing Russian Mars Lander
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Posted Apr 15, 2013 at 6:00 am.
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Using imagery taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2007, amateur astronomers located an object that could be a Russian lander that went dark after a few seconds on Mars in 1971. John Matson reports
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