Beagle 2 in HiRISE, Possible Targets |
Beagle 2 in HiRISE, Possible Targets |
Feb 14 2007, 05:04 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
EDIT: Moved these posts from the Feb 14 HiRISE Release thread to here to collect all Beagle 2 search related stuff in one place.
I'm downloading them now too -- guess I can't blog about them until I've examined them very carefully! For a bit of history on the search, Here's a blog entry I wrote about this spot a while ago Here's the MOC team's take on that spot And here's the BBC page with the Beagle 2 team's take on it EDIT: and here's my updated blog entry with links to the Beagle 2 landing ellipse images split up into 40-MB chunks. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Dec 18 2008, 07:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 11-December 07 From: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Member No.: 3978 |
Perfectly Doug! But the question now is what the hell persuaded the B2 team to install the Huygens shield? Honestly this is one of the reasons why someone should come with a standard issue book titled 'How to land on different worlds for idiots!'
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Dec 18 2008, 09:02 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Honestly this is one of the reasons why someone should come with a standard issue book titled 'How to land on different worlds for idiots!' As the Phoenix team went to great pains to point out as we crept towards EDL, landing on Mars is hard... incredibly hard... teeth-gnashingly, hair-pulling-out hard. I don't think we know what went wrong with Beagle yet, this is just another New Best Guess. And as the Beagle team had to fight their way through ten different levels of Hell to even get the probe built and taken to Mars, and the probe they designed and built with little support from any Big Money, was a marvel of engineering, "as elegant as a pocket watch" it has been said. If it had worked they'd have been praised to the skies for "exploring Mars on a shoestring" and "upstaging NASA for a hundredth of the money"... Hindsight is always 20/20, and yes, mistakes were probably made, but denouncing them as 'idiots' is very unfair I think. I spent that fateful Christmas Day going online every twenty minutes, desperate for updates. I had a horrible, sick feeling in my gut all day waiting for news, with hope gradually ebbing away... and if I was that bad, what nightmares the Beagle team experienced I don't like to imagine. Idiots? Never. I'm still proud of them for even trying. -------------------- |
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