Mars Claims Another Lander

摘要

This was only a test, and up to the very end, it was going well. Then, in the last mile of a 308-million-mile journey, with just 50 seconds to go before touching down on Mars, Europe's Schiaparelli landing demonstrator suddenly went silent on October 19-joining a long list of spacecraft that have tried over the years, and failed, to land on the Red Planet.