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Offline Flipside

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Re: Beagle 2 Mars lander found - intact
Problem is, by the time we get good enough at getting around on Mars to fix it, we probably won't need any information it can gather ;)

 

Offline InsaneBaron

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Re: Beagle 2 Mars lander found - intact
Meh, send humans. Instead of needing a specialised robot just to make Beagle work a human could do the necessary tasks in a spacewalk or two plus do a whole lot more.

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Offline Dragon

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Re: Beagle 2 Mars lander found - intact
Problem is, by the time we get good enough at getting around on Mars to fix it, we probably won't need any information it can gather ;)
We already don't. The only purpose of doing that would be a PR stunt. Beagle 2 was a fairly low-cost vehicle, I think that it couldn't really do anything that the other missions didn't accomplish already.

  

Offline watsisname

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^Pretty much this.  For the potential payoff versus the time and cost required to send something to try to jumpstart Beagle 2, you might as well just make a whole new mission.
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