Internal Beagle 2 Failure Investigation

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Beagle 2
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft dropped the tiny, 30-kilogram Beagle 2 lander onto the Martian surface on December 25, 2003. Beagle 2 carried a powerful suite of instruments that it would have used to study the geology and climate at its landing site and to search for evidence of life, extinct or extant, on Mars.

Two open reports have been published by the Beagle 2 Project Team after a six-month internal investigation.



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