News reports are coming in that the UK Mars rover was supposed to be in contact by 1:15am EST but wasn't. Next chance is supposedly late tomorrow (10pm in the UK?)
macrost
10:51 am on Dec 27, 2003 (gmt 0)
And still lost...
sem4u
9:58 pm on Dec 29, 2003 (gmt 0)
The latest reports say that it may have landed in a crater...but they don't really know.
amznVibe
1:05 am on Dec 30, 2003 (gmt 0)
If the airbags never opened, it's gonna have a crater of it's very own. Apparently they never tested them, lovely.
macrost
3:22 am on Dec 30, 2003 (gmt 0)
Huh, it seems like we are the only ones that think about things like what they are trying to accomplish.
These are the voyagers of the StarShip Enterprise...
;) Mac
lgn1
4:17 am on Dec 30, 2003 (gmt 0)
Maybe they should have kept the beattle II in orbit until the Martian Surveyer could map out a good landing site.
cornwall
8:35 am on Jan 1, 2004 (gmt 0)
"Beagle", so named so that when it sucessfully reached Mars, it could be announced to the world
"the Beagle has landed"
sadly, those immortal words, evocative of the British sense of humour, will not be spoken!
