Beagle2LandingSite-SportFocus.pptVIP

* The Search For Beagle 2 Technical Contributors Stuart Hurst, Colin Pillinger, Jim Clemmet, Lutz Richter, Dave Northey, Lester Waugh, Image Analysis by Guy Rennie Mars Images Courtesy Mike Malin All Rights Reserved Beagle 2 area shown in slide 7 Main Crater Has The Beagle Landed? Beagle 2 Landing Site Falls within Predicted Pre Post Ejection Landing Ellipse Pre Ejection Ellipse Post Ejection Ellipse Now You See it… And You Still Do! To further strengthen the case for a Beagle 2 landing site, image anomalies can be discounted in a number of ways. Perhaps most convincingly by the fact that the ‘objects’ are visible in both the 1.5m resolution and 0.5m resolution images taken several weeks apart. The 0.5m resolution on the right being the most recent and on which the basis of this image analysis report is based. 1.5m/pixel resolution 0.5m/pixel resolution Unique Evidence of a Landing Site over entire Landing Ellipse Comparison ‘Control Crater’ Area approximately 0.5 km2 The ‘control’ crater typifies craters in the region of our Beagle candidate site. Dust filled and featureless. Our candidate site crater as can be seen from the main image is unique, with key features such as impact ejecta and the symmetrical arrangement of objects in the centre of the bowl. Despite an exhaustive detailed manual grid based image interpretation these features have not been seen anywhere else in the landing ellipse, Some 141 km2. In the main image the dust channels built up around the SW side of the main crater (out of view) are clearly visible. The proximity of our candidate crater (already formed prior to Beagle’s ‘possible’ impact) to the channels, would result in deep deposits of dust within the crater, cushioning the impact of a delayed chute deployment and providing the ejecta material clearly visible around the impact point and breaking over the NNW edge of the crater rim. Control Candidate Main Dust Channels Ejecta traces breaking out over the rim of crat