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[maxk] 25/12/2003 20:34

I think we have a problem houston......beep!

[xenawarriorprincess] 25/12/2003 19:23

Nobody would have been more pleased than me if Beagle was ok. Got to be realistic though.

On the bright side the US has two rovers landing at the beginning of and in late January. Now they should be quite a treat, and their landing method, heatshield, parachutes, air bags and retro rockets has been used and worked before.

So hopefully they will land successfully.

[gerry2] 25/12/2003 19:22

Last message recieved ...Sell Energis...Stop ?

Then everything went dead !

LOL

[richardbees] 25/12/2003 19:13

Afraid you're right Xena - when you think about the chances of all the physical procedures happening as planned then finally the airbags inflating then landing on a flat(ish) surface so as to stay the right way up - it would be surprising if it did work!

It's a shame though, a plucky try...and I sympathise with the team who will have been glued to the monitors waiting for a signal. It would have been a nice equivalent to the old symbolic 'Hilary conquers Everest'

[xenawarriorprincess] 25/12/2003 19:03

I'm afraid that Beagle is toast. In all previous cases of Mars landers eitherthe landing has been perfect or the spacecraft has never been heard of again.

The delay in hearing from Beagle unfortunately means we will never hear from it again.

[maxk] 25/12/2003 19:00

The martians shot it down...

[energyi] 25/12/2003 18:57

Betting on Life on Mars [MEDIA]
Ladbrokes, the bookmaker, has cut its odds of finding life on Mars from 33-1 to 25-1 after a flurry of bets following the successful separation of Beagle 2 from Mars Express.
Whilst these might not be true odds, the firm has taken the decision to minimise payouts in case Beagle 2 finds any evidence. Bets have been placed on the "Life on Mars" outcome since 1969.

Posted by: Beagle 2 Team 24-Dec-03 09:44:25

[energyi] 25/12/2003 18:53

SWEET GEEKS... \?
Beagle plays cupid [MUSIC]
Mitch Harris, guitarist with Napalm Death, waiting with the Beagle 2 scientists proposed to his girlfriend at the time Beagle was scheduled to land on Mars. Whilst we await confirmation of the landing, we are pleased to say that she accepted.

[jonc] 25/12/2003 15:01

Fingers crossed for a signal.

[energyi] 25/12/2003 11:54

No signal yet.
Have not given up hope.
"Lander must be in view of the orbiting spacecraft"

[energyi] 25/12/2003 08:07

Beagle Updates:

Blur's Music:

[geologic] 20/9/2003 11:29

Hope the Property comes cheaper there, KL

[katylied] 20/9/2003 11:13

I am certain that there are many lifeforms that
have never set foot on planet earth, posting on
ADVFN everyday. I myself am an AI located in
a magnolia improbability bubble just off
the orion-belt turnpike.

[geologic] 20/9/2003 10:57

Nice drawing, Capt. Swing.
See any green men?

[geologic] 20/9/2003 10:56

Galileo on Course for SUICIDE MISSION

Last exploit for sapcecraft that cicled Jupiter 35 times,
is to crash into the Giant Planet late tommorrow.

The $1.5billion spacecraft has had a successful mission:
- circled Jupiter 35 times, after travelling 3billion miles
- detected a salt water ocean under ice of Europa
- discovered the solar system's largest volcanic eruption (moon Io)
- 14 years away from earth, on a mission originally scheduled for 2 years


MORE LINKS:
Nasa's Galileo site:
Jupiter Flyby:
Brit.Astronomical Assoc.:

[captain swing] 30/8/2003 22:27

The Beagle 2 is landing! (on Christmas Day). Interesting background article

[captain swing] 30/8/2003 12:04

Here's an impression I have drawn of Mars as I saw it through a small telescope (6 inch reflector) tonight. It will be bright and large for several weeks yet

[captain swing] 13/8/2003 09:13

Yes its worth getting invited to a star party

[energyi] 13/8/2003 09:11

Must be a great thing, to see that with your own eyes

[captain swing] 13/8/2003 09:05

Thnx Energyi. Have seen the South Polar ice cap and a few markings thru 6 inch Dobsonian. 135x magnification shows it nicely. Rotten seeing in the UK though. Maximum apparent diameter will be 25 arc seconds; it is already about 24" and will be over 20" until the end of September.

Now rising in the South East around 10pm in UK, highest at 2am. You can't miss it once it's up, its the brightest thing in the sky and a nice orangy red colour. At opposition on 28th August culmination will be at midnight GMT i.e. 1 am summer time, thereafter getting earlier as it becomes an evening star.

[energyi] 13/8/2003 07:40

Mars making closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years
Tuesday, August 12, 2003 Posted: 2358 GMT ( 7:58 AM HKT)



This is a composite of images of Mars acquired by Mars Global Surveyor in early May 2002.


LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The wandering of the planets brings Mars closer to Earth this month than at any time in nearly 60,000 years. It will be a last-chance proposition for all alive today: Mars won't be as close again until August 28, 2287.

Just 34.6 million miles of space will separate the two planets on August 27. If that doesn't sound close, Mars was five times as distant just six months ago.

Already, Mars has begun to loom large in the late evening sky, its rusty twinkle apparent in the southeast. For the next several weeks the fourth rock from the sun should shine brighter than any other celestial body -- save the moon and Venus.

"Mars you can't miss, it's bright and red," said Myles Standish, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Aldo Vitagliano, of the University of Naples in Italy, calculated that Mars hasn't had as close a brush with Earth since September 12, 57617 B.C., when Neanderthals ruled but modern man had begun to make inroads.

J. Kelly Beatty, executive editor of Sky & Telescope, said he plans to be gazing skyward to bathe in the "Marslight" during the closest approach -- 5:51 a.m. EDT on August 27.

The Red Planet still will seem small: To the naked eye, Mars will have the apparent diameter of a penny seen from 500 feet away. Even though Mars is twice the size of the moon, it will be 145 times as distant.

With binoculars, or better yet a telescope, observers can start to pick out details on the planet's surface. The view from even a modest telescope should reveal the planet's southern ice cap, Beatty said.

Next week, astronomers will send radio waves from antennas on Earth that will bounce off Mars to study the terrain where one of the two NASA rovers is targeted to land in January. The close proximity will improve the resolution of the radar images, said Albert Haldemann, deputy project scientist for the rover mission.

Planetariums around the world plan Mars-gazing parties beginning the evening of August 26, and the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to take a close-approach portrait of Mars.

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[d6529] 14/7/2003 18:11

Always beats me how they actually calculate this stuff so accurately.

[golde] 08/6/2003 09:28

Watch out for the Butt Ugly Martians!