That’s the fate of nearly half the missions to Mars, failure. Something to ponder when getting on that first manned flight to the red planet. Additionally, the probe missions don’t hope to get back to Earth. Dave On Jan 16, 2015, at 3:52, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:

Such a shame/frustrating that it came so close to success only to fail. Somewhat reminiscent of the Soviet's Mars 3 (only lasted a few minutes after touchdown).

patrick

UK-led Beagle 2 lander found on Mars

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