Fears grow for European Schiaparelli Mars lander - bbc.co.uk
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Successful or not, I hope they can get some good data out of it. Their next mission depends on it.
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Beagle 2 was a budget-mission. 
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Well, they need to really improve the odds of landing safely before humans attempt this.
NASA’s “Mars Explorers Wanted” poster series celebrates the agency’s latest effort to prepare for a journey to Mars.
Credit: NASA
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Scott Manley reports
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21 October 2016
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to ESA’s ExoMars Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module.
More data and higher rez images being processed over night.
Its a pity they cannot just drive one of the rovers over to the site for a look, but apparently they are to far away.
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It would be nice to see another nation get on mars besides the US.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again
ESA will.
RIP, Schiaparelli: European Mars Lander’s Crash Site Seen By NASA Probe
Smoking hole found on Mars where Schiaparelli lander, er, ‘landed’ - space.com
4KM plummet to surface shattered Euro spacecraft
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I remain hopeful that Europe will get there in one piece. Besides, do we really want to have the US setting up shop there and eventually dominating the food industry - I mean who ever heard of french fries without mayonnaise.
Just a quick one from Scot Manley.
Schiaparelli Mars Crash Site Photographed
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How the Mars 160 Crew Stays Busy and Healthy - space.com
The crew of the Mars 160 mission poses for a photo inside the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.
Credit: The Mars Society
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See the 1st Color Photos of Europe Mars Lander’s Crash Site - space.com
The first color images of a European Mars lander’s crash site are revealing new details about the spacecraft’s unsuccessful touchdown attempt last month.
Zoomed-in view of the crater caused by the crash of Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander on Oct. 19, 2016. Photo taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 1, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
These images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 1, 2016, show the wreckage of Europe’s Schiaparelli lander, which crashed on the Red Planet on Oct. 19, 2016. At top is the crater caused by the lander’s impact; at bottom left is the craft’s parachute and attached back heat shield. The feature at bottom right is thought to be the front heat shield. The 10-meter scale bar applies to all three portions of the image.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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Notes from Mars 160: Making Field Sketches During an EVA - space.com
Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie drawing on a “Marswalk” in the Utah desert.
Credit: The Mars Society
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Wow, that’s a fairly spectacular crater.
Further evidence the martians don’t want Earthlings there!
Or the Secret US Space Program. 
List of missions to Marz
I blame Martions. (or how ever it’s spelled)
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Is It Okay to Touch Mars?
Personally, I’m now more interested in the sink holes, lava tubes and caves on Mars. Getting a robotic rover down inside a sink hole or lava tube cave seems like the best next step on Mars. Then land near one and investigate as part of the first few missions.
Eventually even capping off the top of one sink hole, or ends of a lava tube with a dome might be a great way to create a large safe pressurized living space.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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Nationl Geo Channel - Mars
Ron Howard and Elon Musk are involved. A more closer look at the real relalityof post first mission to Mars and the establishment of a small colony outpost.
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Beagle 2 ‘was so close to Mars success’ - bbc.co.uk
Beagle 2, the failed British mission to Mars in 2003, came “excruciatingly close” to succeeding, a study shows.
A new analysis of pictures of the Beagle 2 spacecraft shows that it did not crash-land on the Martian surface.
Instead, it indicates that the landing went to plan and at least three of its four solar panels opened successfully.
The analysis also suggests that the probe may even have worked for several months, but was unable to send its data back to Earth.
Prof Mark Sims of Leicester University, who commissioned the study, told BBC News that there is an extremely small possibility that Beagle 2 might still be working on the Martian surface.
“It may have worked for hundreds of days depending on how much dust was deposited on the solar panels and whether any dust devils were cleaning the panels - as happened with Nasa’s Mars Exploration Rovers,” he said.
“One possibility is that it could still be working today - but it is extremely unlikely and I doubt that it is.”
Researchers created this computer simulation of sunlight reflecting from Beagle 2.
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