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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '1999-12-08T11:12:34'
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title: What's being called a Mars
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What's being called a [Mars Internet](http://www.space.com/space/mars_micromissions_991207.html) (really just a flock of communications satellites) is being planned. Assuming that the Polar Lander touched down safely, such a system may have prevented its silence, and will certainly help all such future missions.