WHILE NASA scientists celebrate finding signs of water on Mars (see “Case clinched for wet Mars”), British scientists are still puzzling over what became of their Mars lander, Beagle 2. Nothing has been heard from the probe since it separated from its mother ship, Mars Express, on 19 December.
At a meeting in London on Monday, the Beagle 2 team announced that it might have spotted the dead lander on the Martian surface in two images from NASA’s orbiting Mars Global Surveyor. The images show a few white “candidate pixels” near the landing site that might be the remains of…
