I was one of the millions of people who woke up that Christmas morning in 2003 thinking not of Santa Claus but of Colin Pillinger’s Mars Lander, the Beagle 2. We were in London by then, and later on I got to meet Colin Pillinger. I still have the books about Beagle 2 that he gave to me. Wow, it looks like they came very close. Too bad Colin did not live to see these pictures.
The Planetary Society has a very good article on all this:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/01160800-beagle-2-found.html
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