Beagle2¶
Beagle2 should be landing on the Mars surface at 2003-12-25T02:50z. The image below is mock-up image showing the projected landing area, along with some of the more well known places on Mars.
Warning
The full size image is 780 kB!
The actual region is Isidis Planitia. Beagle2 is expected to land within approximately a 200x100 kM zone centered at 11N, 269W.
This region was chosen because the northern hemisphere has a considerably more stable temperature during the spring, reducing the stress on the lander and creating a more stable environment for running tests. [or was it just to beat NASA’s Athena mars rover projects to the spot?]
Note
If you are looking for information about Beagle2 then check out the official site at (http://www.beagle2.com/).
Note
If you are looking for information about EADS Astrium work for Beagle2 run along to (http://www.astrium-space.com).
Important
If you are wondering what the point of this page is then I will send you a copy of the rapidly expanding mbox that was driving me mad prior to posting this ;)