Why is the ESA so stingy with Mars Express pics?, page 1
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reply posted on 2-6-2004 @ 08:38 PM by Ixataar
MARSIS “Going The Same Way As Beagle 2”

MARSIS Schedule WAS pushed back by JPL/NASA.

From;
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov...
U.S. Participation During Orbiter Operations. From;
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov...
“U.S. scientists on the instrument teams will be working with their European colleagues on the overall science goal of this mission: to understand the possibilities for past or present life on Mars by conducting a thorough search for water. U.S. scientists will help research by understanding what geological structures and minerals on Mars might have been formed by water, the extent of subsurface water, and what the atmosphere can tell us about the martian climate and how much water might have been lost to space in the past.”

From;
spaceflightnow.com...
“Simulations carried out four years ago by the radar boom's manufacturer, Astro Aerospace, California, USA, indicated that the deployment should be smooth, without significantly swinging back and forth. However, the radar team has now advised ESA that a new and refined analysis of the boom dynamics indicates that a sort of "backlash" might take place before the boom locks into its position.”

JPL IS VERY Involved.
From;
www.marsis.com...
www.marsis.com...
“Co-Principal Investigator - JEFFREY PLAUT "JET PROPULSION LABORATORY" Earth and Space Sciences Division plaut@jpl.nasa.go Pasadena – California
and;
Experiment Manager - WILLIAM T.K. JOHNSON "JET PROPULSION LABORATORY"
Planetary Radar Sounder Office wtkjohnson@jpl.nasa.gov Pasadena – California”

Antenna Deployment Proceedings;
www.marsis.com.../marsisstatus/antennadeployment


reply posted on 2-6-2004 @ 09:02 PM by Ixataar
An Update On Beagle 2 Lander "Hijacking"
OR;
Nommos Prime (Dogon) "Getting Too Close...?";

From;
www.marstoday.com...
“Notwithstanding that Mars is a very harsh mistress--missions fail with rueful frequency --it is now clear the cards were more heavily stacked than usual against the diminutive Beagle 2, and long before it was launched toward the red planet .
Courted for its support during development, the public is now being shut out of the post-mission report. This is ostensibly on the grounds of commercial confidentiality and an ongoing legal spat between two of the program participants.
That sounds like a thin excuse. Even just the recommendations from the joint European Space Agency/British National Space Center (BNSC) failure review team make for uneasy reading. There is, however, more than a waft of suspicion that the underlying motivation is to avoid numerous red faces among the various players.
If there are legal or proprietary concerns about a name here or an assertion there, then black out the offending words. But publish the rest, warts and all. Withholding the whole report is wrong.”

For those who came in late, see previous Physics Forums’ Links regarding my “outrageous” Beagle 2 Lander “hijacking” theory.

I said “this whole episode would be buried”, and BURIED it is…

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