Bad Astronomy -
16 Jan 2015 19:22
In late December 2003, the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft entered orbit around the red planet. Part of the mission was to send a lander, the Beagle 2, down to the surface to study the geology and other conditions at a site where water was known to have existed long ago. Things didn't go as planned. The lander went down but never sent a signal back home. Efforts to recover anything were for naught, and no one even knew if it landed successfully or if it had crashed onto Mars. Th...
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