I am not giving up on Beagle 2 just yet, but hope is starting to fade. The view from such a lander will be a 'dog's eye view' which would make rocks look bigger than from the perspactive of landers with higher cameras. The early Pathfinder pan (made before the camera mast extension) seen at:
http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/lemmon/mars.html
suggests such a perspective as we might expect once the data stream begins.
I hope that if nothing is heard from Beagle 2 that they will try again soon, perhaps with several possible 'failure modes' investigated and worked on. The orbiter looks like a success and I look forward to the detailed color images yet to come. I hope ESA makes that data freely available as NASA has done with its space images.
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