Wreckage of Spacecraft

[asian1]

Recently NASA had located the wreckage of Mars Polar Lander and the location of Viking 2:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=16493

"we can now add with certainty Viking Lander 2 (VL-2), the location of which has been uncertain by many kilometers for nearly 30 years. We also believe that we have found a candidate for the location of the Mars Polar Lander, which failed without a trace on 3 December 1999."

What happen if the future Mars explorer robots find the location of the wreckage, what should NASA do with the wreckage:
1. Bring it back to earth and put it on Smithsonian museum.
2. Recycle it for creating new base.
3. Leave it alone.

[whabang]

Haven't you seen Red planet? We have to leave it alone, future manned missions will need it for spare-parts! :-D

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And look what happened when they brought back Ripley's escape pod.

[blobrana]

Hum,
If i remember correctly, the bio weapons research division of the corporation had arranged it so that they could get their hands on `it`....

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BTW,
we wouldn’t have been searching for it had nasa done post launch tests and found the software bug that caused the lander to shut down the engines too early....
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@ Blobzie

Ja, that may have been what the Company wanted, but it wasn't what the prisoners on Fury 161 wanted, and they were the ones who retrieved that pod.
That poor little doggy got splitter-splattered...and he wasn't even a Beagle.

[blobrana]

>>poor little doggy

Why? Why are the innocent punished?

 Why the sacrifice?

Why the pain?
There aren't any promises.
Nothing certain.
Only that some get called, some get saved.
She won't ever know the hardship and grief for those of us left behind.
We commit these bodies to the void with a glad heart.
 For within each seed, there is a promise of a flower, and within each death, no matter how small, there is always a new life.

 A new beginning.
Amen.

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Hot off the internet:
Best Views of Viking Lander 1 and Mars Pathfinder taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft (released 9th May).


Viking Lander 1

Mars Pathfinder

in case you need to find a power source or transmitter when your stuck on mars...
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"Nothing certain..."


The chances of anything coming from Mars
Are a million to one, he said
The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one, but still they come...