From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:21:44 +0200, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:41ab6305$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Wasn't there a shuttle crash / explosion due to unit conversions a few
>>> years back?
>>
>> No, that was a Mars probe.
>
> Righty, that was the thing about the earhtling tons vs. martian tons. 
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

I was watching a program on NASA TV, detailing the history of the two most
recent successful Mars missions.  They were giving temperatures at the
surface in Celsius but windspeeds in miles per hour.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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