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SPACE SCIENCE: Japan 'Hopes' to Avoid Crash of Ill-Fated Mars Probe
Govert Schilling
The Japanese space agency JAXA has all but given up hope of saving its crippled Mars probe. The only question remaining is whether it will also crash ignominiously into the Red Planet next month.