Beagle 2 found by MRO/HIRISE. |
Beagle 2 found by MRO/HIRISE. |
Jan 12 2015, 10:30 PM
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Friday 16th January
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/ja...MP=share_btn_tw QUOTE A British Mars lander that was lost on its way to the red planet more than a decade ago may have been spotted by an orbiting spacecraft.
The Beagle 2 lander was supposed to touch down on Christmas day in 2003, but after it was released from its mothership, Mars Express, the dustbin-lid-sized craft was never heard from again. But Beagle 2’s final resting place may finally have been discovered. Scientists operating the HiRise camera on Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will take part in a press conference this Friday to announce “an update” on the ill-fated mission. |
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Jan 12 2015, 11:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Well spotted xflare. How did the Guardian find that? (I suspect an inside job.) It's always nice when the media are well connected science wise.
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Jan 13 2015, 02:53 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I am feeling extremely grouchy about the fact that the Guardian seems to have received a press release that I haven't. Either that, or they got something under embargo and broke the embargo. (I don't get embargoed press releases.) Has anybody seen the original press release online?
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Jan 13 2015, 04:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
A tad more info from a Leicester article:
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Beagle-2...tail/story.html QUOTE However, the subject of the briefing, being held at Royal Society’s Kohn Centre, in London, on Friday, has not been revealed. A tad... |
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Jan 13 2015, 08:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
Thanks so much Xflare and Explorer1 for those much interesting news !
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Jan 13 2015, 08:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
A found Beagle 2 Lander on Mars would be a much-deserved tribute given post mortem to Dr Pillinger.
He fought all he could to raise finance, test equipments, be on schedule, etc... and was not helped much by ESA which had to cope on its side with its own strict budgetary and management rules : see the official report issued by the House of Commons on November 2004 (here below) and especially the statement on its page 25, item # 49 : "According to the Chief Engineer of Beagle 2, Dr Clemmet, “The technical assistance received from ESA was quite restricted”. The Astrium project manager for Beagle 2, Mr Kirk, said that whilst those at ESA with whom he dealt were helpful and enthusiastic, “senior managers with one exception were always reticent. Their life would have been much easier if Beagle 2 had disappeared from MEx [Mars Express] much earlier than it did”." Beagle2_Government_support_2005_711.pdf ( 840.75K ) Number of downloads: 32076 Thanks so much Dr. Pillinger for your enthusiasm for space exploration. We miss you ! |
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Jan 15 2015, 12:16 AM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
Yes, as exciting as this news may be, I still feel a tinge of sadness that Dr. Pillinger didn't live to set eyes on Beagle again (intact or otherwise)
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Jan 15 2015, 02:38 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
I will be shocked if it looks fully deployed.
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Jan 15 2015, 03:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 149 Joined: 18-June 08 Member No.: 4216 |
Let's see the evidence fist. I'll be sorely disappointed if this is just another
interesting collection of pixels like the previous "finds": http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/...nd-on-mars.html I would expect to see more than that to clinch the case. Tolis. |
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Jan 15 2015, 03:31 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The HiRISE people would not be involved if that's all it is.
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Jan 15 2015, 11:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
Anyone have a link for the press conference?
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Jan 16 2015, 09:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2431 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
Anyone have a link for the press conference? You can watch the press conference LIVE on the Telegraph website in 45 minutes... 10am UK Time http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/sp...found-LIVE.html |
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Jan 16 2015, 10:02 AM
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Jan 16 2015, 10:04 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 18-July 05 Member No.: 438 |
Landed successfully, but only partially deployed, in which case the antenna probably wasn't uncovered. So close...
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Jan 16 2015, 10:32 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 559 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
UK Space Agency press announcement.
The images of Beagle, parachute and shell are in the video, which also shows animated images taken at different times, showing sun glint on metal. UK Space Agency Beagle 2 with video There is additional photo analysis on the BBC News site at the moment. |
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