A l t e r E g o 9 Posted December 30, 2003 Beagle2 website Somehow I had not even heard of this mission to find life on Mars until news of its failure hit the airwaves. The early reason being given for the spacecrafts lack of contact with planet Earth is it's believed to have upon landing, rolled up against a crater wall thus blocking the signal from even leaving the surface or causing the antenna to be pointed in the wrong direction and unable to find Earth. Such crappy luck! Do you think given the track record for failures of missions to Mars (2/3 failures to 1/3 successes) we should back off a little on our ambitions to explore Mars and let our technology improve or should we just charge ahead learning from our mistakes? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abakai2003 0 Posted December 30, 2003 There is still a chance to contact it in a few days when its carrier Mars Express gets into posittion. Heres a Joke I just came up with Click for Spoiler: Whats the Diferance between the Brittish space program and Captain Archer?? Archer knows where his Beagle is Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prometheus 0 Posted December 31, 2003 Sometimes, i think, we should continue as we never know what we may find - it could end up changing our lives. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
