12-26-2003, 12:02 PM
No news is bad news from Mars :friusty
Thursday, December 25, 2003 Posted: 8:48 PM EST (0148 GMT)
LONDON, England -- British scientists have failed in their latest attempt to make contact with the Beagle 2 probe which was to have landed on Mars on Christmas Day.
The lack of a signal is a blow for the European Space Agency which is making its attempt to land a craft on the Red Planet.
More than 19 hours after the tiny craft was to have rolled to a stop on the surface of Mars, the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, took advantage of the planet's position to begin scanning its surface for the Beagle's signal, The Associated Press reports.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/25/m...gnal/index.html
Thursday, December 25, 2003 Posted: 8:48 PM EST (0148 GMT)
LONDON, England -- British scientists have failed in their latest attempt to make contact with the Beagle 2 probe which was to have landed on Mars on Christmas Day.
The lack of a signal is a blow for the European Space Agency which is making its attempt to land a craft on the Red Planet.
More than 19 hours after the tiny craft was to have rolled to a stop on the surface of Mars, the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, took advantage of the planet's position to begin scanning its surface for the Beagle's signal, The Associated Press reports.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/25/m...gnal/index.html