Beagle Mars Lander Seeks Redemption on Moon

Credit: NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
A planetary science team is proposing to the British government and NASA that the backup hardware designed for the Beagle 2 lander that crashed on Mars in 2004 be recycled for a joint robotic mission to search for water on the surface of the Moon. If approved, such a concept could give NASA the...

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