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| Big Mars | [MARS] |
| Unfortunately cloudy skies over the UK have prevented good views of Beagle 2's target as it approaches Earth closer it than has been for over a decade. |
| Dave Rowntree, the drummer of Blur, and lately specialist computer animator, got excited about Beagle 2 on Radio 1, and Colin Pillinger, against a graphic of a massive Mars that dwarfed the skyscrapers, explained
to GMTV viewers how Mars would be even closer in two years time when Beagle is on its way. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 15-Jun-01 14:12:52 |
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| Boil in the bag camera | [INSTRUMENTS] |
| The flight spare of the stereo camera pair was recently sterilised (see News from Beagle 2 number 21) and later tested to check that everything worked as it should. The sterilisation did not in any way impair
the functions of the camera. More about Planetary Protection coming soon. |
| Below: The stereo camera following sterilisation, prior to undergoing tests to show that its functions were unaffected. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 11-Jun-01 15:52:09 |
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| TWO YEARS TO GO TO LAUNCH! | [LAUNCH] |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 01-Jun-01 16:41:35 |
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| Video clips coming soon | [PROJECT] |
| Dr Rob Hough has joined the web team and in the very near future we will be bringing video snippets to the web site. Below: Rob practises getting the Lead Scientist to talk about Beagle 2 - he doesn't need much persuading! |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 30-May-01 14:41:37 |
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| TC on TW | [TEAM] |
| TC Ng and his Hong Kong team featured on Tomorrows World (BBC TV) showing some of the components of Beagle 2's sample collection tools. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 23-May-01 14:45:19 |
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| Beagle 2 on show | [TV] |
| The Director General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, hearing all about Beagle 2 during a visit to Walton Hall at the Open University last Friday. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 21-May-01 11:18:33 |
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| New Beagle Bulletin | [BULLETINS] |
| Issue 6 of the Beagle 2 Bulletin is now available. If you want to keep up to date with the project in print please request a free copy. Send your postal address to Becky Reynolds at r.y.reynolds@open.ac.uk.
Telephone 01908 655169. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 18-May-01 15:46:50 |
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| Mars in the lab | [INSTRUMENTS] |
| The stainless steel test chamber recently delivered to the OU will allow the scientists to develop and test the mass spectrometer and gas handling system under simulated martian conditions such as low
pressure and temperature. |
| Below: test chamber in the Beagle 2 mass spectrometer development laboratory. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 11-Apr-01 09:48:49 |
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| Everyone wants a Beagle 2 story | [TV] |
| Although it was Odyssey's day, Beagle 2 got its fair share of coverage - from TV and radio on launch day, TV critics trails of "Life on Mars" produced for Channel 5 TV by Pioneer (shown on 9 April), via Dave Rowntree's
animation for the project in Q magazine, and the selection by Ian Taylor MP of Beagle 2 as one of his highlighted points in the Guardian 10 April [MPs were given 40 words to sum up 4 years], to a question on
Beagle 2 on "Never mind the Buzzcocks" pop quiz (9 April) - and yes, the panel did know the answer ! |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 10-Apr-01 14:53:24 |
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| Congratulations to Odyssey | [LAUNCH] |
| Watching the Odyssey launch live via satellite at Astrium with some of the Beagle team - left to right Dave Rowntree, Mike Rickett and John Thatcher (Astrium), Alex James, Colin Pillinger. |
| The launch was nervously watched by the Beagle 2 team as the orbiter is one of the ways our data can get back to Earth. After Odyssey the next launch to Mars will be Beagle 2 aboard ESA's Mars Express. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 09-Apr-01 11:16:32 |
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| More power to Beagle 2 | [PROJECT] |
| Beagle 2 now has an extra solar panel. Friends and family of the engineers working on the real thing were introduced to the latest design unveiled at Astrium to coincide with the Odyssey launch. Watch
out for studio pictures of the latest design, coming in the next few days to RESOURCES. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 09-Apr-01 10:43:43 |
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| Odyssey Launch | [LAUNCH] |
| Good luck to Nasa's Odyssey orbiter mission from the Beagle 2 team. Launch time 16:02 (UK time) on 7 April. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 06-Apr-01 17:53:40 |
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| Sample Return Discussion Meeting | [PROJECT] |
| Pictured below is part of the audience at the meeting held on the 23 March to discuss possible Mars sample return. The meeting was widely reported in the press, the story posted by the Telegraph reporter reached
some unlikely places like the Calgary Herald. The headline in New Scientist summed up the idea - Fetch, Beagle, Fetch ! |
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