[extropy-chat] Spirit Rover - Galvanic Failure?

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Amara Graps wrote:

>regarding Mars. Why does the media not notice the scientific
>cooperation? I see from Google news (in the U.S centered mode) all of
>the news reports regarding the NASA rovers, but how could they forget
>Mars Express?

Don't know about the US, but here we got some news about Mars Express too
- I'm sure you didn't miss it :) I think it's just that a rover is more
fashionable and interesting to the general audience.

>(*) The plasma instrument detected ions above background level from the
>probe; speculation is that the 'airbag' might have had a leak, losing
>gas. Beagle 2 might have hit the surface with a fatal thud.

You know the joke about the Beagle2:

Guy1: the predicted landing area was an 80x30 km ellipse. The actual
      landing perfectly matched predictions.
Guy2: so, where exactly beagle2 landed?
Guy1: all over that place! one piece here, another piece there

Alfio