WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT "THE SPIRIT","THE BEAGLE 2"(NO SIGNAL,I THINK THEY LOST HIM) AND THE MISSIONS TO MARS????



DO YOU THINK WE ARE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE????



MY ANSWER: NO IS INCREDIBLE HOW MANY PEOPLE DON�T BELIEVE IN E.T WE ARE IN HUGE UNIVERSE IMAGINE ALL THE KINDS OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE FOR ME I SO EXCITING. :o



P.D. ALIENS IF YOU HAVE ELVIS...PLEASE BRING IT BACK TO THE EARTH.

OR MAKE A PHONE CALL TO THE NASA PLEASE!!!!



E.T PHONE HOME WHAT HAPPENED TO ELLIOT????

INCREDIBLE :o

No Mars signal from Beagle probe





Beagle 2's inter-planetary journey took six months

Scientists have failed to pick up an expected signal from British-built spacecraft Beagle 2 telling them it has landed safely on Mars.



The �35m ($62m) probe should have landed at 0254 GMT on Christmas Day after a six-month flight.



Nasa's Mars Odyssey orbiter has since flown over its landing site but failed to detect the expected call sign.



Lead scientist Professor Colin Pillinger insisted that "it's not the end of the world".



The giant Jodrell Bank telescope, in Cheshire, UK, will come on line at about 2200 GMT to listen for signals.



Scientists are confident that sweep will pick up a signal from Beagle 2 - if it has made it to the planet surface in one piece and is functioning as expected.



If that option fails, the Nasa spacecraft will have a daily chance to pick up the signal until 3 January, when Europe's Mars Express craft - the mother ship now orbiting the planet - begins its mission.



However, if nothing has been received by the end of 26 December, hopes for Beagle 2 will start to fade.



The probe must recharge its batteries on the day it lands or it will not survive the first night on Mars.



Speaking at the Open University's offices in Camden, north London, Beagle's lead scientist, Professor Colin Pillinger, told reporters: "Please don't go away from here believing we've lost the spacecraft.



"I'm afraid it's the usual England scenario - we're going to play extra time," he said.



"We always thought we would put Beagle into hibernation because we did not want to risk wasting any power during the first night.



"There is absolutely nothing we can do until the computer attempts to wake Beagle up tomorrow on Mars but tonight on Earth".



He added: "If we do make contact (on 25 December) we cannot send any information either to or from Beagle, all we will be able to do is say that Beagle is alive and attempting to transmit to us."



Mike Healy from Beagle 2's constructor Astrium UK said he had not contemplated a "negative scenario".



"It really should have been able to communicate with Odyssey this morning.



"But it could have landed in the wrong place or it may not have opened successfully, and the aerial may be pointing in the wrong direction."



He also said there was a "small possibility" Beagle 2 was not able to communicate properly with Odyssey, as it had originally been designed to communicate with Mars Express at this stage.



Beagle 2's plunge through the thin atmosphere of Mars, slowed by parachutes and cushioned by airbags, is the most dangerous part of the mission.



The worst case scenario is that Beagle has crashed and is lying in fragments strewn across the Martian surface.



But another member of the Beagle team, Ian Wright from Open University, said there was "no point contemplating that one at the moment".



"There are still plenty of things to try," he said.



Successful orbit



If successful, Beagle 2 will embark on a 180-day mission to search for signs of life.



The one piece of good news early on Christmas morning was Mars Express, in another high-risk manoeuvre, successfully entering into orbit around the planet.

The craft will send back 3-D pictures of the surface and scan for underground water with a powerful radar.



But the historical odds of success for Beagle 2's mission are low. Despite more than 30 missions launched to the Red Planet since the 1960s, only about two-thirds have been successful.



Three landers have reached the Martian surface; all costly American missions, unlike Beagle 2, which was put together in record time and on a shoestring budget.









The landing could have damaged the probe





BY THE WAY "THE SPIRIT IS DOING HIS JOB VERY WELL" :) [/i]

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That's a bummer, no signal from the Beagle. Remember the last mission to Mars with the probe/robot that didn't make it?



Space always will be the new frontier, but I don't know if I'll see it conquered in my lifetime. The future... the future...

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The Spirit Rover lives on though!



http://story.news.ya...id=624&ncid=716



Leave your earth behind!

8O ......... I DON�T LIKE THE MARS CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!! O_Ou

Beagle 2 is in a ditch on the Martian surface.

one giant step for science.

Whoa! That is amazing.

I find it really difficult to grasp that that photo is actually taken from a different planet, a different world, millions of miles away. Incredible 8O.

Kinda what I thought it would be, rocks, sand, dust. Nevertheless an amazing accomplishment! :D



Two conspiracy theories, ahem...



1. It's all faked, as was the landing on the moon. ;-)

2. There are some pictures that NASA has not published. There are surely some green aliens that look just like the martians from cheap b-grade series in those secret pictures. ;-)

I've heard that the conspiracy theorists said that it's all being shot "in Arizona" .. (kind of like how the same theorists say the Moon landing was fake and was shot in a studio somewhere) ....



Who, how, what and why do they come up with that???? Please, tell me. I'm awful curious to know.

Ok, so I posted my reply before I saw that last post. But. I still pose the question. :)

evermin Escribi�:

I've heard that the conspiracy theorists said that it's all being shot "in Arizona" .. (kind of like how the same theorists say the Moon landing was fake and was shot in a studio somewhere) ....



Who, how, what and why do they come up with that???? Please, tell me. I'm awful curious to know.

I'm not sure. :P Buts its really really stupid. Y'know, considering you can see the American flag on the moon with a good telescope... ;)

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