Well it looks like Beagle 2 may have been lost, 6 attempts from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter have revealed no communications, however what it has found it a crater, 1 km wide just in the landing zone of Beagle 2. If Beagle 2 has landed there then I think it is time to say bye bye to yet another spacecraft going to Mars. At least we have ignorance on our side, a 1 km wide crater is just too small to have been noticed until the recent high resolution images have been taken by Odyssey.
Image: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/images/031229craterclose.jpg Credit: Malin Space Science Systems Mars is a plagued planet for our probes, I can't believe people are speculating about sending people there when we can not even land a toy car! |
For more information see: http://www.beagle2.com/news/index.htm and http://www.esa.int |
