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It was the Polar Lander and Climate Orbiter, not a rover. For both someone wrote part of the program in meters and another person wrote their portion in feet: the Climate Orbiter was 146 kilometers off and burned up. After patching the software on the Polar Lander it mislanded when it was less than 50 meters over the land. It flew 350 million kilometers and missed by only 40 something meters. BUT you have to hand it to them: it's like you flew around the world 2.3 times and landed 1.2 feet from the end of your parking spot.

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