Mars probe ‘may be stranded in crater’
The one kilometre-wide crater, which could be hundreds of metres deep, lies like a bullseye at the centre of the 70 x 10 kilometre target area on Isidis Planitia near the Martian equator.
It was only revealed by close-up pictures of the site taken by the Nasa orbiter Mars Global Surveyor minutes after the British probe was supposed to have landed on Christmas Day.
