MGS

MGS - that's short for Mars Global Surveyor and while this is a bit of an old story, it's raining today and I need something to do, so I'm going to make fun of NASA. Pictures to be coming soon over at the gallery....

It seems that after serving faithfully for 10 years, the MGS finally burned up like the wings of Icarus after engineers uploaded the wrong bit of code to the surveyor. When they tried to correct the initial problem, the solar panels ended up getting point directly at the sun which caused the batteries to overheat.

Oops!