When Communicating Science goes wrong
Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7788638.stm
feeling bad for miscalculation is one thing, but explaining to the board of advisers why your experiment went under is quite another…
At the end of 2003 Beagle 2 had been released by the Mars Express ship into Martian atmosphere. Contact was lost and the probe was never recovered. A number of reasons were suggested but the most prominent of all was the misjudged atmosphere. New study (those of simulated nature) re-assessed possible fates of the Beagle. Calculations are to be compared to the new report and therefore nothing can be drawn out of it at the moment. a lot of explaining has to be done.
perhaps the miscalculation was in the fact that beagles can’t fly ;)
cheerio,
Vlad.
more of Beagle mission: here
18 Dec 2008 01:14
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