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| Professor Pillinger on the BBC | [TV] |
| I'm Searching for Life on Mars |
| Colin Pillinger told the BBC. See the full story and hear the interview by clicking on the link on the right. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 14-Mar-02 18:22:34 |
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| Sunday Telegraph profiles Beagle 2 | [IN PRINT] |
| Getting the words and pictures - behind the scenes with Sunday Telegraph reporter Jenny Booth. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 03-Mar-02 14:53:47 |
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| National Astronomy Week in 2003 | [EVENTS] |
| NAW next year will be from 23 to 30 August to coincide with the close approach of Mars. All eyes will be on Beagle 2's destination. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 28-Feb-02 13:14:54 |
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| Mars in a can | [TESTING] |
| The mass spectrometer qualification model being tested under martian conditions in the Open University's simulation chamber which is known locally as Baldrick. Jenny Stewart makes adjustments to
the instrument before closing Baldrick's lid. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 13-Feb-02 15:15:46 |
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| New Team Colours | [PROJECT] |
| Unveiled at the Consortium meeting in December, the project has adopted a striking colour scheme for display posters. Morphing from yellow through orange to red with purple-blue bullet points, these colours will
increasingly been seen over the coming months. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 08-Feb-02 11:09:28 |
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| Bulletin issue 8 | [BULLETINS] |
| Beagle 2 Bulletin issue 8 is now available. For a free copy send your postal address to Becky at r.y.reynolds@open.ac.uk. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 05-Feb-02 14:07:36 |
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| Support equipment takes shape | [TESTING] |
| Tim Spice of EPS Logistics Technology Ltd and Kelvin Price of Astrium watching Jim Patterson of EPS test an Integration / Turnover Stand (with proof load dummy mass installed). |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 07-Feb-02 12:32:17 |
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| Recognition for FitzRoy | [EVENTS] |
| From today the name of FitzRoy will be broadcast daily for the world to hear. The Captain of HMS Beagle, after which Beagle 2 is named, went on to be the first Superintendent of the Met Office. His name now
forms part of the daily shipping forecast, replacing the location Finisterre. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 04-Feb-02 19:25:18 |
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| Recording for Mars | [MUSIC] |
| Yesterday in London software engineers from Science Systems who are responsible for Beagle 2's on-board software joined forces with Blur to programme the specially written call sign into the source
code. TV and radio crews watched on. All communications from Beagle 2 back to Earth will start with the chosen notes of the music. |
| On the left Blur's Damon Albarn and Alex James entering the code into a project computer. And on the right, over coffee, Colin Pillinger, Alex James, Dave Rowntree and Roger Ward discuss the frequencies
of the notes in the signal. Both by photographer Jonathan Oppong-Wiafe. |
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