:: introduction to Beagle 2 science
The scientific payload
Science targets
Mass spectrometer
Cameras
Sample collection
Spectrometers
Environmental sensors
Sight and Sound on Mars
Planetary protection
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“Its implications are as far reaching and awe inspiring as can be imagined”

President Bill Clinton August 1996 speaking from the White House lawn following NASA's report of evidence of the remains of life in a martian meteorite..

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With a landed mass of 33.2kg, Beagle 2 represents the most ambitious science payload to systems mass ratio ever attempted. Almost a third of the payload will carry out various types of analysis or be used to manipulate and collect samples for study on the surface of Mars.

Now read the first section with further details on The Scientific Payload»

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