[extropy-chat] NEWS: 'Tiger team' heads Beagle search

J Corbally jcorb at iol.ie
Mon Dec 29 00:23:15 UTC 2003


>There is still no sign of life from the British-built Mars probe, Beagle 2.
>All attempts to contact the lander with the Mars Odyssey craft in orbit 
>around the Red Planet and with large radio telescopes on Earth have drawn 
>a blank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3352521.stm

>Scientists have now set up a "tiger team" to work through all the possible 
>reasons for the lander's silence.
>The small group, based at the British National Space Centre, is drawing up 
>a list of "blind" commands to send to Beagle that might prompt it to respond.
>Both the radio telescopes at Jodrell Bank in the UK and at Stanford 
>University in the US listened out for Beagle late on Sunday - but with no 
>positive result.
>Mars Odyssey will overfly the supposed landing zone on two occasions in 
>the next 24 hours.
>But the Beagle team think their best hope of raising the robot will come 
>next weekend when Mars Express - the "mothership" which carried the 
>"pocket watch" lander to the Red Planet - gets into position to contact 
>its "baby".


Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks....

Touchdown plus 4 days and still nothing.  I am _not_ liking this.




James...








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