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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Jan 3 2009, 09:09 PM
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By the way, while I respect you opinion, I think that you are wrong.
I have read the report and thousands of critical articles. The British team is very ambitious, but I have the feeling that they always blame the environment. Firstly, the big crater, secondly, the thin atmosphere. |
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Jan 3 2009, 11:24 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4490 |
By the way, while I respect you opinion, I think that you are wrong. I have read the report and thousands of critical articles. The British team is very ambitious, but I have the feeling that they always blame the environment. Firstly, the big crater, secondly, the thin atmosphere. Well, I am sure you could be right - there *could* be other engineering issues with Beagle-2 beyond "bad luck" factors like landing on the side of a crater, or the atmosphere being too thin. We will never know for sure without EDL data, and I would expect EDL comms would be high on the list for B3. I will not re-iterate everything else from this and other B2 threads - you can even consider sheer dead weight as being a factor - in 1998 the Beagle-2 team had to reduce the allowed probe weight from 108kg to 60kg - from pure engineering intuition, a lump of lead might be less susceptible to chaotic forces than a light object.. My real point is, why give up on the first go? And at that point - you turned to discussing politics. That is a banned subject at UMSF. That has been deleted, as has the reply - Admin. |
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