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| Beagle 2 gets closer to Mars | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| One month on from launch, some 35 million miles travelled, and the Beagle 2 project was on show at the Royal Society Summer exhibition. Preparing for an evening soiree, Andrew Coates (MSSL), Simeon
Barber, Ian Wright and Colin Pillinger with flight spares of the gas analysis package, calibration target and the PAW. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 01-Jul-03 19:44:10 |
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| If you are in London | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| The exhibition "The Beagle Voyages - from Earth to Mars" is now open at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Entrance is free and the exhibition is on until early September next year.
Well worth a visit for all Beagle 2 followers, the display has material from HMS Beagle and the Mars lander, and looks at the wider issues of whether the is life on Mars. More information at www.nmm.ac.uk or
telephone 0870 780 4265 |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 06-Dec-02 16:19:23 |
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| Beagle 2 on show | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| Beagle 2 will at the Tomorrows World Road Show at the NEC on Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th July and tonight (Wednesday 3rd) will be part of the Tomorrows World TV programme broadcast live from the show. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 03-Jul-02 16:52:37 |
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| Major exhibition announced | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| An Exhibition featuring Beagle 2 and HMS Beagle will open in early December 2002 at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 12-Apr-02 19:47:12 |
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| Drives and Controls Exhibition | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| Beagle 2 featured on the maxon motors stand at the Drives and Controls exhibition held at the new ExCel Centre in London's Docklands. |
| Below: Photographed before the opening with colleagues from maxon motors, later Colin Pillinger gave numerous interviews to the trade press. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 13-Mar-01 17:35:49 |
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| On display at the start of National Science week | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| Beagle 2 was featured on the Matra Marconi Space display in the Technology at Work Exhibition held at Imperial College, London where the annual science week was launched. After opening speeches,
HRH Princess Anne and Lord Sainsbury visited exhibits. Over the next two days, MMS and OU staff explained about Beagle 2, conveying some of the exciting projects that today's engineers and
technologists can be involved with. |
| Above: On the left, Lord Sainsbury, a frequent visitor to Beagle 2 stops by for an update on the project. On the right Colin explains how Beagle 2 will function on Mars to HRH Princess Anne. Below left:
Another visitor was Trevor Bayliss, inventor of the clockwork radio. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 17-Mar-00 21:05:15 |
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| At the science museum | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| Beagle 2 was on display to the public, and of course the media, in the Space Gallery of the Science Museum for the day. As part of an innovative way of displaying current science issues several of the
Beagle team were on hand to talk with the public. The new Beagle 2 postcard was gladly accepted by a large number of visitors. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 04-Aug-99 16:05:14 |
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| The Royal Society New Frontiers in Science Exhibition | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| The Beagle 2 exhibit combined science, art and many opportunities to tell the public, invited school students and Royal Society invitees about the project. |
| The display included the original watercolour of HMS Beagle (painted by Owen Stanley FRS, 1841) which took Charles Darwin on his epic journey, on loan for the duration of the exhibition from the National
Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Behind the rock strewn table were the two paintings by Damien Hirst. One, called Beagle 2 featured an image of the lander amongst the spots, the other, Red Planet, was
a single red spot, with butterflies, signifying Mars. A plasma screen showed the computer animation of the landing and deployment of instruments. |
| BEAGLE 2 BULLETIN, a four page tabloid format handout was produced for the exhibition. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 16-Jun-99 14:43:30 |
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| Beagle 2 and industry | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| Beagle 2 will be at the CBI Conference in Birmingham 1-3 November as part of the Open University display (Hall 3 Stand 7) showing the strength of the partnership between academia and the best of
British industry in the aerospace and high technology fields generated by this project. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 29-Oct-98 09:25:33 |
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