Nope, they have more in common than not. First we don't know for sure what killed them. Beagle 2 could be sitting on the surface upside down stuck inside the airbags, but otherwise okay. MPL could also be down and whole, just now dead because of a major problem with it's CPU. Or both could have suffered from a lack of good data for atmosphere as I said elsewhere. We don't know!
Both if successful would have advanced our knowledge of Mars and both were worth the extra few million needed to succeed!
I would note nobody is demanding money back from Pillinger!
Your welcome to come on by MSPS any meeting. We at Mars Society Puget Sound just did a field trip over to Eastern Washington to earthly analogs to Mars (Fenchman Coulee, basaltic sand dunes south of Moses Lake, some Missoula Floods flood plains north of Moses Lake on Highway 17 (a perfect analog to the flood plains Sojourner operated on at Ares Vallis, Mars) and of course Grand Coulee/Dry Falls).
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- Beage 2: As I was saying
- a portrait ..
- Predictions, anyone? How long before ESA offers competitive prizes like NASA now is?
- A Difference Overlooked
- David Whitehouse lurks the Habitable Zone.
- You know this for a fact?
- Another article about Beagle 2
- Exactly on point
- re: Exactly on point
- Standard practice is to design for the worst case scenario
- Importance of feedback from protypes
- re: Standard practice is to design for the worst case scenario
- Standard practice is to design for the worst case scenario
- re: Exactly on point
- Exactly on point
- don't hold your breath for a refund (n/t)
- Sounds like what they said about Mars Polar Lander. (n/t)
- Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone. (n/t)
- re: Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone.
- A big difference
- Yes, there are some differencess...
- re: A big difference
- re: Beagle 2 was 'too great a risk'
- You're missing the point
- re: You're missing the point
- How much extra would Beagle 2 have cost if they used the NASA airbag sytem?
- Many space scientists said MPL's landing system was doomed to failure BEFORE it arrived at Mars. (n/t)
- re: You're missing the point
- You might be right.
- A big difference
- re: Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone.
- Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone. (n/t)