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European Mars lander still AWOL, scientists try to restore contact [seek NASA's help]
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| 1.26.04
| AP
Posted on 01/26/2004 5:40:50 PM PST by ambrose
European Mars lander still AWOL, scientists try to restore contact
London-AP -- With Europe's first Mars probe silent more than a month, British scientists have announced a "last resort" plan to reboot its computer and hope for the best.
The European Space Agency hasn't heard from Beagle Two since it separated from its mother ship last month. That's despite help from a Mars orbiter and NASA and British telescopes.The British-built lander was due to land on the red planet on Christmas Day. The European Space Agency sent a craft to survey the landing site, but heard nothing.The lead scientist on the Beagle Two program says his team will ask NASA to send a command from its Mars orbiter to tell Beagle to switch off its own computer and reload software. If that fails, they could try again next month.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: beagle; europeans; mars; martians; nasa
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posted on
01/26/2004 5:40:51 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: Phil V.
ping.
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posted on
01/26/2004 5:41:21 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: ambrose
Reboot. They must be using Windows.
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posted on
01/26/2004 5:42:41 PM PST
by
sd-joe
To: ambrose
It would be pretty cool to have Beagle wake up and get to work.
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posted on
01/26/2004 5:47:22 PM PST
by
Spruce
To: Spruce
Especially if NASA is the one to wake it up.
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posted on
01/26/2004 5:48:28 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: Spruce
Bet someone fed him too much cheese...
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posted on
01/26/2004 5:48:30 PM PST
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: ambrose
Still hoping against hope.
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posted on
01/26/2004 5:49:45 PM PST
by
Simmy2.5
(Kerry. When you need to katchup...)
To: ambrose
"All your Mars landers are belong to us"
To: ambrose
Why aren't they able to have Mars Express send the command? Or is MGS/Odyssey (the article doesn't seem to say which one) simply closer at the moment?
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posted on
01/26/2004 6:12:56 PM PST
by
Ex-Dem
(-_-)
To: ambrose
I think it was bitten by a moose.
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posted on
01/26/2004 6:17:43 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
To: ambrose
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posted on
01/26/2004 6:19:10 PM PST
by
blam
To: ambrose
BTTT
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posted on
01/26/2004 6:28:32 PM PST
by
hattend
(Are we there, yet?)
To: ambrose
I wonder if it fell in a sandhole, or quicksand or something.
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:23:27 PM PST
by
sandbar
To: ElkGroveDan
Uh oh - here come the 'a moose bit my sister once' postings... :)
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:36:52 PM PST
by
solitas
(sleep well, gentle reader; but remember there ARE such things...)
To: ambrose
Halliburton's plans to mine Mars are falling apart...
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:39:20 PM PST
by
Guillermo
(It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
To: ambrose
SINCE nasa/jpl did those snazzy before/after landing zone images with this last lander, has anyone suggested to them that they try it in Beagle's project path/landing zone and look for a landing or an impact? Nothing ventured, nothing gained: they MAY currently be trying to send signals to something that's been been 'kinetically disassembled'...
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:41:43 PM PST
by
solitas
(sleep well, gentle reader; but remember there ARE such things...)
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