Although the Mars lander Beagle 2 is presumed dead (SN: 1/31/04, p. 67: Available to subscribers at Red Planet Roundup: Opportunity knocks; Spirit revives), its mother craft, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express, has transmitted its first data from a polar orbit about the Red Planet.
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