Found! Beagle 2 on Mars

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Beagle 2 Mars lander disappeared after it separated from the Mars Express orbiter on Christmas Day, 2003. Eleven years later, it has been found, partially-deployed on the Martian surface. Longtime Beagle 2 mission leader Mark Sims tells the story.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Found Beagle II on Mars this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:12.0	I'm at Kaplan to the Final Frontier.
0:12.6	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:15.0	It disappeared on Christmas Day 2003.
0:18.6	Eleven years later, and after some of its creators had passed away, the UK-led European Beagle II Lander
0:25.8	has been found.
0:27.2	We'll get the amazing story from Mission Lead Mark Simms in England.
0:31.5	Speaking of Europe, everybody's going to be talking about the latest
0:34.4	images of Comet 67P taken from just four miles away by the Rosetta Orbiter.
0:41.0	And that everybody will include Emily Lochuwala in a couple of minutes.
0:45.5	We'll pay a visit to Bruce Betts as he teaches his live astronomy class. First though Bill Nye is
0:50.8	back with his argument for putting continued operation of two great missions back in NASA's 2016 budget.
0:59.0	Bill, we haven't had much of a chance to talk with you about the NASA budget that we covered last week with
1:04.1	Casey dryer and Jason Callahan. Would you agree with them that overall it looks
1:08.8	pretty good? Well yeah because it includes an increase for planetary science,
1:13.7	still not up to our beloved 1.5 billion.
1:16.5	By hour, I mean the planetary society.
1:18.9	Phase A for a mission to Europa,
1:21.0	phase A is a big deal at NASA.
1:23.6	But along with that, it is suggested, proposed, included
1:28.2	that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter budget
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