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Digital Planet: The Mystery of the Beagle 2 Lander

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The Mystery of the Beagle 2 Lander

15/11/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, The Mystery of the Beagle 2 Lander

Solving the mystery of the Beagle 2 lander to Mars

Solving Beagle 2 mystery; Internet Saathi’s on a mission in India; Caterthuns on film; SoleWay indoor navigation

The mystery of the lost Beagle 2 lander on Mars appears to have been solved.  Click talks to Professor Mark Sims, former Beagle 2 Mission Manager and Professor of Astrobiology and Space Instrumentation at the University of Leicester. 

Internet Saathi
Bicycle riding internet advocates are getting women online in rural India. Click hears how from Mr Prabhat Pani from the Tata Trusts.  

Caterthuns
The Caterthuns is an experimental film by Kieran Baxter exploring how aerial photography and creative visualisation technologies can be used to connect the archaeological interpretation of ancient monuments with the evocative landscapes of which they form part.  Kieran Baxter talks about The Caterthuns which has just won an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research in Film Award in the UK.

Indoor Navigation
Professor Nico Van de Weghe has spent many years researching the problem of navigating indoors where GPS/satellites do not work.  He demonstrates an app he has  developed called SoleWay to address the problem.


(Image caption: Beagle 2 model on a simulated Mars surface © Everett Gibson JSC/Beagle 2)


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