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So Beagle 2 was landing on Mars early this morning to try and answer the question of whether there is or ever was life on Mars, and so far there has been no sign of a signal from it to say it's ok, poor thing. :P
The Beagle 2 mission is something I have been following with great interest for a while, and right now I'm bored, so I will share a little of its history with you in the hope of sparking a bit of interest in it with someone else.
The Beagle 2 project was launched in June 2003. The projects’ name, Beagle, was chosen as it was the name of the ship in which Charles Darwin worked as a naturalist, and it was due to his time on the HMS Beagle that his famous work, “On the Origin of Species” came about. The Beagle 2 mission was until this morning, operating successfully, which was a relief for those involved in its development as the first was a bit of a disaster. The first Beagle mission ended in disaster due to an unfortunate lack of communication between two groups of scientists, where neither group realised that the other were using different units of measurement, leading to calculation errors when sharing information that resulted in the loss of the original Beagle. It now is starting to look like eprhaps this second mission is to prove unsuccessful as well, which is a real shame.
Scientists were going to use a list of criteria to reach a conclusion about whether life existed or not, criteria such as whether water is or was present on Mars, whether the environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure and wind speed would allow for life to exist, and they were going to investigate if rock samples contained any organic residues, which if found would answer the question beyond any doubt.
Now it looks as if it is going to be a few years more before we get the chance to attempt to have these questions answered for us, which probably doesn't matter to most, but some of us are eager to have a definitive answer. All sorts of equipment is needed to find these answers, some of which has been getting a lot of press equipment, such as the Damien Hirst calibration target, that odd dotted painting we've been hearing so much about. Personally, I'm more interested in the gas analysis package, which would have been used to measure methane and nitrogen levels by burning samples, much more interesting than a picture of spots.
It would be nice if this mission somehow succeeds, it could open up whole new corridors of space exploration, and we could learn so much more about our solar system. I'll stop now because I know I'm probably boring you to death, but hopefully the scientists will get a signal soon telling them and us that the Beagle 2 has indeed landed.
The Beagle 2 mission is something I have been following with great interest for a while, and right now I'm bored, so I will share a little of its history with you in the hope of sparking a bit of interest in it with someone else.
The Beagle 2 project was launched in June 2003. The projects’ name, Beagle, was chosen as it was the name of the ship in which Charles Darwin worked as a naturalist, and it was due to his time on the HMS Beagle that his famous work, “On the Origin of Species” came about. The Beagle 2 mission was until this morning, operating successfully, which was a relief for those involved in its development as the first was a bit of a disaster. The first Beagle mission ended in disaster due to an unfortunate lack of communication between two groups of scientists, where neither group realised that the other were using different units of measurement, leading to calculation errors when sharing information that resulted in the loss of the original Beagle. It now is starting to look like eprhaps this second mission is to prove unsuccessful as well, which is a real shame.
Scientists were going to use a list of criteria to reach a conclusion about whether life existed or not, criteria such as whether water is or was present on Mars, whether the environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure and wind speed would allow for life to exist, and they were going to investigate if rock samples contained any organic residues, which if found would answer the question beyond any doubt.
Now it looks as if it is going to be a few years more before we get the chance to attempt to have these questions answered for us, which probably doesn't matter to most, but some of us are eager to have a definitive answer. All sorts of equipment is needed to find these answers, some of which has been getting a lot of press equipment, such as the Damien Hirst calibration target, that odd dotted painting we've been hearing so much about. Personally, I'm more interested in the gas analysis package, which would have been used to measure methane and nitrogen levels by burning samples, much more interesting than a picture of spots.
It would be nice if this mission somehow succeeds, it could open up whole new corridors of space exploration, and we could learn so much more about our solar system. I'll stop now because I know I'm probably boring you to death, but hopefully the scientists will get a signal soon telling them and us that the Beagle 2 has indeed landed.
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Yeah, tis a shame to have all that hard work and money go to waste, assuming the worst has happened. We may yet receive a signal from it though ....
So Beagle 2 was landing on Mars early this morning to try and answer the question of whether there is or ever was life on Mars, and so far there has been no sign of a signal from it to say it's ok, poor thing. :P
The Beagle 2 mission is something I have been following with great interest for a while, and right now I'm bored, so I will share a little of its history with you in the hope of sparking a bit of interest in it with someone else.
The Beagle 2 project was launched in June 2003. The projects’ name, Beagle, was chosen as it was the name of the ship in which Charles Darwin worked as a naturalist, and it was due to his time on the HMS Beagle that his famous work, “On the Origin of Species” came about. The Beagle 2 mission was until this morning, operating successfully, which was a relief for those involved in its development as the first was a bit of a disaster. The first Beagle mission ended in disaster due to an unfortunate lack of communication between two groups of scientists, where neither group realised that the other were using different units of measurement, leading to calculation errors when sharing information that resulted in the loss of the original Beagle. It now is starting to look like eprhaps this second mission is to prove unsuccessful as well, which is a real shame.
Scientists were going to use a list of criteria to reach a conclusion about whether life existed or not, criteria such as whether water is or was present on Mars, whether the environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure and wind speed would allow for life to exist, and they were going to investigate if rock samples contained any organic residues, which if found would answer the question beyond any doubt.
Now it looks as if it is going to be a few years more before we get the chance to attempt to have these questions answered for us, which probably doesn't matter to most, but some of us are eager to have a definitive answer. All sorts of equipment is needed to find these answers, some of which has been getting a lot of press equipment, such as the Damien Hirst calibration target, that odd dotted painting we've been hearing so much about. Personally, I'm more interested in the gas analysis package, which would have been used to measure methane and nitrogen levels by burning samples, much more interesting than a picture of spots.
It would be nice if this mission somehow succeeds, it could open up whole new corridors of space exploration, and we could learn so much more about our solar system. I'll stop now because I know I'm probably boring you to death, but hopefully the scientists will get a signal soon telling them and us that the Beagle 2 has indeed landed.
The Beagle 2 mission is something I have been following with great interest for a while, and right now I'm bored, so I will share a little of its history with you in the hope of sparking a bit of interest in it with someone else.
The Beagle 2 project was launched in June 2003. The projects’ name, Beagle, was chosen as it was the name of the ship in which Charles Darwin worked as a naturalist, and it was due to his time on the HMS Beagle that his famous work, “On the Origin of Species” came about. The Beagle 2 mission was until this morning, operating successfully, which was a relief for those involved in its development as the first was a bit of a disaster. The first Beagle mission ended in disaster due to an unfortunate lack of communication between two groups of scientists, where neither group realised that the other were using different units of measurement, leading to calculation errors when sharing information that resulted in the loss of the original Beagle. It now is starting to look like eprhaps this second mission is to prove unsuccessful as well, which is a real shame.
Scientists were going to use a list of criteria to reach a conclusion about whether life existed or not, criteria such as whether water is or was present on Mars, whether the environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure and wind speed would allow for life to exist, and they were going to investigate if rock samples contained any organic residues, which if found would answer the question beyond any doubt.
Now it looks as if it is going to be a few years more before we get the chance to attempt to have these questions answered for us, which probably doesn't matter to most, but some of us are eager to have a definitive answer. All sorts of equipment is needed to find these answers, some of which has been getting a lot of press equipment, such as the Damien Hirst calibration target, that odd dotted painting we've been hearing so much about. Personally, I'm more interested in the gas analysis package, which would have been used to measure methane and nitrogen levels by burning samples, much more interesting than a picture of spots.
It would be nice if this mission somehow succeeds, it could open up whole new corridors of space exploration, and we could learn so much more about our solar system. I'll stop now because I know I'm probably boring you to death, but hopefully the scientists will get a signal soon telling them and us that the Beagle 2 has indeed landed.
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