Amateur space enthusiasts may have discovered missing Soviet Mars lander

Photos captured from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may provide new clues about a Soviet spacecraft that mysteriously vanished 40 years ago. In a press release published Thursday, NASA credited a group of amateur Russian space enthusiasts with discovering what could be remnants of the Mars 3 -- a Soviet craft that successfully landed on Mars in 1971, before suddenly losing contact with the USSR seconds afterward. The discovery was made by a Russian online community dedicated to the Mars Rove...