Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Beagle 2 Probe Spotted on Mars

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-umm-sorrry-about-that-my-bad dept.

evilduckie writes "According to this BBC article photos taken by the Mars Global Surveyor show the European Beagle 2 probe which was lost after it apparently crash-landed on Mars."

4 of 210 comments (clear)

  1. Why?? by TooCynical · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The Beagle 2 lead scientist has been painstakingly studying images of the landing site in search of his spacecraft ever since it was lost on Christmas Day two years ago. "

    Why? Is he going to run up and get it once he locates it?

    Clearly he has spent too much time collaborating with the fine folks at NASA that kind of professional time-wasting may only be learned from an american.

    R

    --
    Homer: Facts are meaningless, you can use facts to prove anything that's remotely true!
  2. Fix what problems? We already did that or no? by ami-in-hamburg · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't see why they didn't just ask the US how we landed two probes successfully. If I remember correctly, those things were supposed to work for a month or two, then die. As far as I know they're still going.

    Or were they launched at around the same time to test different landing mechanisms? Could be, who knows?

  3. Re:Fix what problems? We already did that or no? by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 0, Troll

    As I understand it, if the Europeans sent 1,000 probes, it would still cost less than the US sending one.

    --
    Sent from my ASR33 using ASCII
  4. Moon Landing by Seldon_21 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If they can find this and detail how/where they think it is located why can't they do the same for the equipment left on the moon?