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Space/Science » in reply to Mars Express: Mars from 5.5 million kilometres

Here's hoping for a successful mission

There are some really challenging segments to the mission coming up in the next few weeks. As a recent thread discussed, the track record for Mars exploration is filled with many failures. Many of those failures happened shortly after launch, so at least they're past that challenge. Still, orbital insertion around Mars can be tricky and a landing even more so.

So, here's hoping for a successful orbital insertion and landing by the Beagle (even if they were built by Europeans! :)

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