[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

A better question might be:

"Has anything Europe done lately worked?"

We will be sending our own version, two mobile Rovers to Mars next month:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

[New Horizon]

I don't think we should go to Mars...it's a silly place.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

So much would be possible if only we could get beyond the monopolistic corruption that still pervades our bureaucratic governments’ space programs. Related thread:
Did Astrium, an ESA-anointed monopolistic contractor, actually WANT its lean-budgeted Beagle 2 Mars mission to fail in order to secure greater funding for subsequent interplanetary missions funded by increasingly stimulated European taxpayers? Why won’t ESA and NASA simply offer COMPETITIVE PRIZES?