The Sunday Telegraph London, December 28th, 2003
These are understandably anxious times for Professor Colin Pillinger, the brains behind Britain's missing Mars probe, the Beagle 2. By now the craft should be burrowing, mole-like, into the soil of the red planet, its tiny antennae beeping and its creator's place in the history of space exploration assured.
Instead, there is only an ominous silence, and it appears likely that the Beagle's arrival on Mars was at a somewhat higher velocity than the one intended. In space, they say, no one can hear you scream, but 60 million miles from Earth, somewhere over the crater- pocked Isidis basin, you m...
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