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Still No Contact from Beagle 2
Many of you have submitted this, so this will be a condensing of the relevant information. WebfishUK writes: "The BBC has just released this story which announces the failure of the latest and possibly best chance to contact the British built Mars probe, Beagle 2. Given that Mars Express was designed to communicate with Beagle (unlike the earlier attempts with NASA's Mars Odyssey), this may indicate that something catastrophic has happened to Beagle 2." From Bromrrrrr: "[The]
ESA is reporting that the Mars Express, which everybody was hoping would be able to get through to the poor lost puppy, has failed its first attempt. 'We have not lost hope yet to contact Beagle 2, but we also know that it has landed on an unforgiving planet,' said David Southwood, ESA's Director of Science." and I-R-Baboon adds: "The Mars Express mothership from the EU passed 350 km over the intended landing site of the Beagle 2 hearing only silence. Although nothing was heard, hope has not been given up yet, as scientists will keep trying until February, with more passovers of the Beagle 2's landing site on January 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, and 14th." Additional updates can be obtained from the Beagle 2 homepage as well as from the ESA's homepage for the Mars Express. Here's hoping that the lander is only down, and not out.
Retrieving the black box is going to be a *bitch* :)
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The 'Beagle 2' finally sent the first pictures and an explaination why it didn't sent earlier click here.
"I've been crossing my eyes at Nasa's Mars photos for half an hour and I still can't see a beagle!"
Dupe.
On the plus side, though, you're well on your way to becoming a Slashdot editor.
"Derp de derp."
Pinging beagle-2.co.uk with 32 bytes of data
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
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Request timed out.
Ping statistics for beagle-2.co.uk:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)
Clearly, these rocket scientists are stupider than a typical Slashdotter. Next time, they ought to just Ask Slashdot before sending a probe, so that smart people like you can come up with ideas that they never would have thought of.
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You're calling the people who built, launched and sent a semi-autonomous probe through space and landed it on another planet stupid?
Hey, it's not rocket sci -- er, um, never mind.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.