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Beagle 2 Mars Express; Kasei Valles; Sacre Fossae water ice on Mars
View Phobos's rotation from the assembled still photographs captured by the Mars Express orbiter
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Beagle 2
Beagle 2 Professor Colin Pillinger posing with the European Space Agency's Beagle 2 Mars lander prior to its unsuccessful deployment from the Mars Express orbiter in 2003.

Mars Express

European spacecraft
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Dave Dooling
Education and Public Outreach Officer, National Solar Observatory, Sacramento Peak, New Mexico. Coauthor of Engineering Tomorrow.
Dave Dooling
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Mars Express, European spacecraft that mapped the surface of Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express was launched on June 2, 2003, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and went into Mars orbit on December 25, 2003. Mars Express carried a colour stereo camera, an energetic neutral atoms analyzer to study how the solar wind erodes the atmosphere, a mineralogical mapping spectrometer, and atmospheric and radio science experiments. It also carried a British lander, named...

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