Mars enthusiasts can comb through thousands of new satellite pictures of the red planet, including stereoscopic images of the region where a NASA probe mysteriously disappeared almost two years ago.

In January 1999, NASA's Mars Polar Lander roared away from Earth on a bold mission to explore a unique region of the Red Planet. The spacecraft was to gently set itself down near the border of ...

On this date, Jan. 3, 1999, NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander as part of then -NASA administrator Dan Goldin’s “Better, Faster, Cheaper” initiative. But as the saying goes, you can only ...

For NASA, the most recent Mars lander mission prior to Spirit was the Mars Polar Lander, which was lost in September 1999 as it began its descent to the distant planet’s surface.

Nearly six years after NASA's Mars Polar Lander (search) vanished during a landing attempt on the Red Planet, a scientist said he has spotted what appears to be wreckage of the spacecraft.

Just as NASA was about to abandon efforts to contact the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, which vanished last Dec. 3, a radio signal Jan. 4 buoyed hopes that the craft was still alive on the Red ...

Astronomers may have heard a faint signal from the vanished Mars Polar Lander spacecraft last month but, as of mid-February, have not detected another.

P A S E D E N A,   Calif.,   Jan. 6 -- The vanished Mars Polar Lander could have tumbled down a canyon on the Red Planet, but investigators so far have uncovered no evidence supporting a ...

Mars Polar Lander was lost during an attempted landing on December 3, 1999 near the planet’s south pole. Since that time, several searches by the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor have been carried ...

Finding the whereabouts of NASA’s Mars Polar Lander might offer some clues about its true fate. But there is a good scientific reason to spot the wreckage as well – a motive tied to life on ...

USSR – Mars 2: First man-made object on Mars; transmitted some orbital mapping data before crashing on surface. USSR – Mars 3: Transmitted some orbital data and photos before lander was ...

January 16, 2015 - NASA announces that the Beagle 2, missing for 11 years, has been spotted on Mars. It appears the lander’s solar panels did not completely open upon landing, hindering ...