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As we all know, the British lander Beagle II was lost shortly after it was released from the European Mars Express orbiter in December 2003 ...
Does anyone know if the Beagle II animation is available on the WWW ?
( It was made by one of the British pop-group Blur and shows the launch, cruise & landing on the red planet ... Beagle II is welcomed on Mars by both members of BLUR in spacesuits awaiting the lander on Mars )

Philip

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BBC 4/28/06:

"Cartoon history of race to Mars "

Excerpts:

"The display is a quirky pictorial history of our fascination with the Red
Planet over the centuries, cataloguing the highs and lows of Mars
exploration through the irreverent, and sometimes cruel, eyes of the
cartoonist."

[snip]

"The exhibition is sponsored by the Particle Physics and Engineering
Research Council (PParc), which stumped up some of the cash for the Beagle 2
mission.

Head of communications at PParc, Peter Barratt, says he hopes people will be
entertained by the exhibition, learn a little science, and come away
enthused enough to support future missions.

'It's another opportunity to bring the fascination of space and scientific
research to hopefully a wider audience through cartoon art,' he says."

Full text and a brief slide show:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4950056.stm