Good luck Beagle 2

Posted by: CrackersMcCheese

Good luck Beagle 2 - 24/12/2003 08:41

Please please please work!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3344693.stm
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: Good luck Beagle 2 - 24/12/2003 08:48

Seasons Greetings!

I really wish the probe all the best, and I hope it is successful. But I still cannot get this image out of my head...
Posted by: CrackersMcCheese

Re: Good luck Beagle 2 - 24/12/2003 09:43

That cartoon makes me think about all the missions. I know Beagle 2 was very very careful with regards to contaminating Mars with bacteria, but that was every mission so careful? Did Viking ensure it was sterile? If life is found how could we be sure it wasn't introduced by us decades before?
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: Good luck Beagle 2 - 24/12/2003 12:46

Greetings!

They take every precaution with the new probes. With the old probes... That is why they dumped Galileo.