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Article: Beagle experts in signal riddle.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 29, 2003
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Byline: Neville Dean
A TEAM of experts was last night trying to work out why Britain's Beagle 2 Mars probe has so far failed to make contact with Earth,as efforts to communicate with the craft continued.
The Analysis and Recovery Think Tank at the British National SpaceCentre in Leicester has been set up to thrash out theories and possible solutions.
So far no signal has been received from Beagle 2 since it attempted to land on the red planet on Christmas Day.
A group of around 15 scientists and engineers are using a functioning scale model of the craft and a computer generated simulation to test possible reasons for why the team has ...