My astronomy teacher in college told our class that the accepted conclusion was that the thrusters didn't fire and it slammed into the side of Mars. I haven't did any research on it, but that's what the astronomy department says at ASU! My teacher also said that the reason it crashed into Mars was a dealing with metric-into-standard conversion that never happened. The data was plugged into the mission without being converted into US standard. I guess that would cause some problems!
-Lasereth
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