Overshadowed by the success of NASA's Mars rover missions, few recall that the USSR once had its own rover program.

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1. 1. CharleneAnderson 12:10 PM 2/21/13

   Alexander Kemurjian, the little rover's designer, once told me Prop-M was working and had begun to deploy during those first 20 seconds after landing. But Mars 3 arrived during a tremendous Martian dust storm, and he believed the lander was blown over by the wind, and so lost contact with Earth. If the Soviets had had a little better luck, who knows where we would be on Mars today.

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