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	Beagle 2
		Beagle's destination was Isidis Planitia, a relatively flat basin that may have been formed by sedimentary deposits.
		Beagle was to have used "hit, bounce, and roll" airbag landing technology to that employed by Mars Pathfinder in 1997.
		Beagle 2 also carried environmental sensors to measure UV radiation, temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, and the momentum and amount of atmospheric dust.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/Beagle2.html (1744 words)

	Beagle 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beagle 2 was an unsuccessful British landing spacecraft that formed part of the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission.
		Beagle 2 was conceived by a group of British academics headed by Professor Colin Pillinger of the Open University, in collaboration with the University of Leicester.
		The concept for the Beagle 2 mission appears in the trailer for the Transformers motion picture (to be released in 2007).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beagle_2 (1752 words)

	Space Today Online - Exploring the Red Planet - European Space Agency - Mars Express & Beagle 2
		Beagle 2 disappeared as it descended to the martian surface on December 25, 2003.
		Beagle 2, riding the Mars Express, was a British project to land a robot explorer on the surface.
		Beagle 2 was to have set down on the Red Planet at Isidis Planitia, a large flat region that overlies the boundary between the ancient highlands and the northern plains.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Mars/MarsExploration/MarsExpressBeagle.html (6173 words)

	Aerospace Technology - Beagle 2 Mars Lander
		The British-led Beagle 2 project is the probe for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express mission.
		Beagle 2, part of the ESA's Mars Express mission, will be landing on the Red Planet on 26 December 2003 after a journey of over six months.
		Beagle 2 will be released from the Mars Express by the SUEM which will push the probe away whilst making it spin on its axis for stability.
	www.aerospace-technology.com /projects/beagle (1000 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Destination Mars \| The Beagle has landed...
		The Beagle 2 lander is carried to the Red Planet aboard the Mars Express spacecraft, as shown in this mission illustration.
		Beagle is a lander and holds the record for being the smallest lander ever to be sent to Mars.
		The Beagle 2 lander, to be carried on ESA's Mars Express, is equipped with a suite of instruments designed to look for evidence of life on Mars.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /mars/marsexpress/030528beagle2.html (2338 words)

	CNN.com
		The British-built Beagle 2 was named in commemoration of the ship that took biologist Charles Darwin on the epic voyages that shaped his theory of evolution.
		Beagle 2 has the challenge of supporting and ensuring the survivability upon landing of all the equipment required to carry out its scientific mission on the surface.
		Beagle 2's robotic arm was developed to remove specific scientific instruments and tools from the lander and deploy them in positions where they can study or obtain samples of the rocks and soil.
	www.cnn.com /interactive/space/0312/fullpage.beagle2 (443 words)

	Christmas Day Mars Landing
		More accurately, the Beagle 2 will be looking for chemical traces of life--telltale signs that life once existed, or perhaps, exists right now on the red planet.
		Beagle 2 will be able to sample the variety that lies within.
		The Beagle 2 is named after the ship that carried Darwin on his famous 19th-century voyage of discovery.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2003/17dec_beagle2.htm (1083 words)

	Interview with Beagle 2 Scientist :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		For the lost Beagle 2 probe, the orbiting of Mars Express held out the chance that a direct communication link could be established to a beacon distress signal from the surface.
		Beagle 2 was something of an afterthought to Europe's overall Mars exploration, said Pillinger.
		The detailed postflight analysis of the Beagle 2 mission includes an assessment of the landing site ellipse from orbital images, reanalysis of atmospheric conditions during the entry into the Martian atmosphere on Chirstmas day, examination of the separation from Mars Express and of the cruise phase preceding arrival at Mars.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article951.html (1669 words)

	Beagle 2 may have sped to its death - 08 March 2004 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The missing Beagle 2 lander may have crunched into the Martian dust after plummeting through an unexpectedly thin atmosphere.
		Another line of investigation has been prompted by a picture of Beagle 2, snapped as it was ejected from Mars Express.
		However the Beagle 2 team have asked for a higher resolution close-up of the "string of pearls", and more pictures will be taken this week.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4752 (631 words)

	ESA Portal - Lessons learnt from Beagle 2 and plans to implement recommendations from the Commission of Inquiry
		The Beagle 2 inquiry was launched on February 11 by Lord Sainsbury, UK Minister for Science and Innovation, and Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, to investigate the circumstances and possible reasons that prevented completion of the Beagle 2 mission.
		The Beagle 2 project was led by the Open University, providing the science lead, and EADS-Astrium, the prime industrial contractor responsible for the main design, development and management of the lander.
		The Beagle 2 lander was funded through a partnership arrangement involving the Open University, EADS-Astrium, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the Office of Science and Technology and ESA.
	www.esa.int /export/esaCP/SEMLKAHHZTD_index_0.html (1924 words)

	Beagle 2, Mars lander
		The Beagle 2 craft, named after the ship upon which Charles Darwin made his voyage of scientific exploration, is largely the inspiration and brainchild of one person, Prof.
		Beagle 2 will land in the Isidis Planitia, a flat lying basin just north of the Martian equator where the terrain is flat with few steep slopes, hopefully reducing the hazards of landing.
		Beagle 2 will not be able to communicate directly with Earth but instead will relay its messages through the Mars Express orbiter and, possibly via NASA's Odyssey orbiter and even Mars Global Surveyor, if it is still operational.
	www.astronomytoday.com /exploration/beagle2.html (815 words)

	Beagle Newsletter Issue 10 - Beagle
		Beagle 0.0.12 was released in July and was the most feature packed release we've seen in a while.
		Beagle certainly comes as a great resource to traditional desktop users but those of us who have a home directory that is NFS mounted have been limited by NFS not supporting extended attributes.
		Beagle frontends can now be written in C or C# so there is little excuse for you not to work on a frontend you enjoy.
	beagle-project.org /Beagle_Newsletter_Issue_10 (688 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Beagle 2 probe 'spotted' on Mars
		The Beagle 2 lead scientist has been painstakingly studying images of the landing site in search of his spacecraft ever since it was lost on Christmas Day two years ago.
		The last contact was an image of Beagle taken by its mothership, the Mars Express orbiter, on 19 December 2003.
		Professor Pillinger claims the images show Beagle 2 came very close to being the first spacecraft to mount a concerted search for life on the Martian surface.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/4542174.stm (538 words)

	Beagle 2 Begins Descent to Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Beagle 2, shortly after it separated from Mars Express, begins its six-day descent to the surface of the red planet.
		While Beagle 2 is on the ground, Mars Express will image the entire surface at high resolution and selected areas at super resolution, including determining the structure of the sub-surface to a depth of a few miles.
		Beagle 2's assignment is to determine the geology and the mineral and chemical composition of the landing site, search for life signatures, and study the weather and climate.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/12/1219_031219_marsbeagle2.html (748 words)

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		Beagle 2 is scheduled to land on Mars at 2:54 am on Christmas morning.
		A Beagle 2 spare transmitter was brought to Jodrell Bank to carry out an end to test of the JBO receiver system on the ground prior to installation on the Lovell Telescope.
		The RF engineers have simulated a test Beagle 2 signal which is switched on for 10 seconds and off for 50.
	www.jb.man.ac.uk /public/BeagleII.html (1703 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| No Mars signal from Beagle probe
		He also said there was a "small possibility" Beagle 2 was not able to communicate properly with Odyssey, as it had originally been designed to communicate with Mars Express at this stage.
		Beagle 2's plunge through the thin atmosphere of Mars, slowed by parachutes and cushioned by airbags, is the most dangerous part of the mission.
		The worst case scenario is that Beagle has crashed and is lying in fragments strewn across the Martian surface.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3344693.stm (654 words)

	Beagle 2 Mission to Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Beagle 2 (www.beagle2.com) project is the British led effort to land on Mars as part of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Mission, launched in June 2003.
		In May 2002, about six months before the main parachute was due for integration into the Beagle 2 spacecraft, tests showed that the airbags used for absorbing the impact of the Beagle 2 spacecraft at the Mars surface were only able to survive an impact significantly lower than specified.
		In the words of Astrium, the Beagle 2 main parachute "is reputedly the best in the world and, for a planetary mission, was designed and developed in the shortest time".
	www.airbornesystems-na.com /beagle2.html (554 words)

	Beagle 2 'should never have been built' - space - 03 February 2005 - New Scientist Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Beagle 2, the British lander lost on Mars in 2003, should never have been built.
		The report was commissioned by the UK government and ESA in February 2004 to investigate the circumstances and possible reasons for the failure of the Beagle 2 mission.
		The report is highly critical of the way in which Beagle 2 was born.
	space.newscientist.com /article/dn6967.html (700 words)

	SPACE.com -- U.K. to Launch Mars Probe
		The Beagle 2 lander will weigh in at a scant 66 pounds (30 kilograms), but is densely packed with an array of instruments designed to probe Mars for signs of life.
		The Beagle 2 team hopes to launch the $40 million spacecraft in June 2003, tucking it aboard Soyuz/Fregat rocket with the Mars Express for the trip to Mars.
		The Beagle 2 would use parachutes to slow its descent through the atmosphere, ultimately relying on an airbag system to cushion its landing.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/missions/beagle_lander_000522.html (835 words)

	Beagle 2: Does that Dog Hunt? :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		Summary (May 27, 2004): The Beagle 2 mission review team has issued their reflections and recommendations on what happened to the space probe after it separated from the orbiting Mars Express.
		The Mars Express spacecraft, carrying the Beagle 2 lander, was launched on 2 June last year, arriving in the vicinity of Mars in December.
		The first radio contact with Beagle 2 was expected shortly after the scheduled landing time but no signal was received.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article990.html (1919 words)

	CNN.com - Crater theory over missing Beagle - Dec. 29, 2003
		CNN's Gaven Morris has more on the Beagle 2 probe, which failed to broadcast a signal to confirm it has landed on the red planet.
		It is possible, although unlikely, that the Beagle may be unable to communicate because it landed in the crater, he said.
		Neither the Martian weather nor trouble with the hardware of the Beagle's clock appeared to be the source of the problem, he said.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/space/12/29/beagle.missing.ap/index.html (895 words)

	The Microscope for Beagle 2: Introduction
		However, a completely novel element of the Mars Express payload was the Beagle 2 lander.
		Beagle 2 was designed to descend through the atmosphere of Mars to the surface using a combination of aerobraking, parachutes, and airbags.
		The PIGs were involved in the development and testing of the microscope system for Beagle 2.
	www.phim.unibe.ch /b2mic/b2mic.php (287 words)

	Communication Strategy of the Beagle 2 "Think Tank" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Beagle is programmed to 'concentrate' on receiving data at night time to avoid draining the battery with power intensive data transmission.
		A further explanation for the lack of contact between Beagle and the Earth is that the onboard clock may have been corrupted during the entry, descent, and landing stage of the mission.
		Members of the Beagle 2 team are also exploring the possibility of 'recruiting' other radio telescopes to hunt for the signal from Mars.
	www.marsdaily.com /news/beagle2-03b.html (1829 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: Beagle 2 Landing Site
		Beagle 2 is due to separate from the Mars Express orbiter on 19 December.
		Beagle 2 will land on Isidis Planitia, a large, flat sedimentary basin of impact origin straddling the relatively young northern plains and ancient southern highlands, where traces of life could have been preserved.
		You now can explore the terrain features of the Beagle 2 landing site by means of the Keyhole NV application.
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=34374 (358 words)

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