Beagle 2, and the Year of the Dwarf Planet
Chris North\nIn\xa0January it was announced that images from spacecraft orbiting Mars had probably located\xa0signs of Beagle 2, the unfortunate UK mission to the red planet which went missing back in 2003. This month I chatted to LCOGT\u2019s Edward Gomez, who has been following proceedings,\xa0about what this means \u2013 including that\xa0the UK now holds the record for Europe\u2019s first soft landing on another planet!\nBut current and future missions have also been in the news. NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft\xa0is rapidly approaching Ceres, and New Horizons will whizz past Pluto in the Summer. Unprecedented close-ups of these two dwarf planets should tell us much more about how our Solar System formed.\xa0Not forgetting, of course, Rosetta and the Philae lander, which are\xa0investigating coemt 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.\n Read more