The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), launched by NASA in December 1998 as part of the Mars Surveyor ’98 program, was designed to study the Martian atmosphere and climate in unprecedented detail. Equipped with instruments to monitor weather patterns, track atmospheric dust and water vapour, and measure surface changes, it also served as a relay satellite for future Mars missions
The mission MCO 1998 failed due a common error that most students in high school commit.
In simple words, "If the United States had not retained this specific British legacy and had adapted to the modern world's proposal, the MCO would have been succesful"
what extremely trivial error that can alter calculations to an extremely large extent?
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