By the New Year holiday 2004, the Japanese space probe Nozomi may arrive at Mars after a five-year voyage. The mission has had many problems but has managed to continue on its journey to explore Mars. The probe has a camera and a dozen other instruments to study the Martian atmosphere. Nozomi was launched on July 4, 1998 and was scheduled to reach Mars by the end of 1999. It has been off course and adjusted many times. Its fuel has frozen, its been crippled by a solar flare, and the radio hasn’t had enough power to send a readable signal back to Earth.