Wreckage Of Beagle 2 Found? |
Wreckage Of Beagle 2 Found? |
Dec 20 2005, 01:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
Wreckage of Beagle found scattered in Mars crater
Talk about being unlucky assuming this is confirmed. |
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Dec 27 2005, 04:47 PM
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Talking about spacecraft that kept working...
I believe that of the 1997 Pathfinder-Sojourner combination, first the base station failed meaning that the little rover couldn't get nor send images/instructions. The rover had a tiny heat source of its own and it was designed to start up again if it didn't hear from Earth for 7 days ... |
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Feb 21 2006, 05:21 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
It would have been interesting, had MGS been in an appropriate orbit at the time (I think it had just arrived when Pathfinder failed, but it may not have been there yet - at best, it was in a looping orbit not suitable to look for a lander), might it have at least picked up that Sojourner was transmitting. Pathfinder suffered from having to operate with no orbiter support, both in terms of data transmission and the fact that its site had to be picked from old kilometer-scale Viking images.
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