Re: [meteorite-list] Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2)

2003-12-19 Thread MexicoDoug
Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2) Fecha: 12/18/2003 11:48:38 PM Mexico Standard Time De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado por Internet Hi, Here in the UK anticipation is building up in advance of Beagle 2's separation from the MARS EXPRESS orbiter later today. Beagle

RE: [meteorite-list] Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2)

2003-12-19 Thread mark ford
I think us Brits should be proud of Beagle2 ! - Even if it was designed on a shoe string, and looks like a cheap lunchbox, Just think what we could do with 1/100th of NASAs budget!! (A lot more than NASA I suspect, geez does that organization waste money or what) Of course it will

Re: [meteorite-list] Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2)

2003-12-19 Thread E. L. Jones
Yes you should be proud Mark But a fiver will get you a tener that 99/100^th of NASAs technology is involved at one stage or another ( stage? get it?) It is a Great Christmas Gift to us all. God Speed Beagle2! Elton mark ford wrote: I think us Brits should be proud of Beagle2 ! - Even if it

Re: [meteorite-list] Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2)

2003-12-18 Thread j . divelbiss
Hello all, I've been wondering what these three vehicles are going to find and get reported back to NASA and others. Will limited sampling of Mars rock specimens be enough proof to match/validate our SNAC meteorites?...that is SNC's plus the Allan Hills find. Will the range of igneous rock

Re: [meteorite-list] Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2)

2003-12-18 Thread David Freeman
Dear John, List; I hope they find frozen petrified stromatoites (like the ones listed on ebay) ;-). That is if the parachutes work, and the batteries don't freeze. Hope it lands right side up and the antennae do not break off. Lets see, that is four of a zillion things that could go wrong.

Re: [meteorite-list] Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2)

2003-12-18 Thread j . divelbiss
Anticipation of things to come is usually better than the reality of the happenings. Let's hope for the best...and possibly one or two of those items might be closer to being answered about Mars. As for stromatoites...always gotta do some ebay plugging don't we Dave. It nevers ends, night and

Re: [meteorite-list] Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2)

2003-12-18 Thread STUARTATK
Hi, Here in the UK anticipation is building up in advance of Beagle 2's separation from the MARS EXPRESS orbiter later today. Beagle 2 is only small - same diameter as a bicycle wheel in fact - but it's packed with science instruments. With two out of every three probes sent to Mars so far

[meteorite-list] Christmas Day Mars Landing (Beagle 2)

2003-12-17 Thread Ron Baalke
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/17dec_beagle2.htm Christmas Day Mars Landing NASA Science News December 17, 2003 In search of alien life, the European Space Agency's Beagle 2 probe will parachute to the surface of Mars on Dec. 25th. December 17, 2003: It's wintertime in the northern