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Conclusion of the Beagle 2 Phobos Eclipse Experiment

Work was concluded on the Phobos eclipse experiment, which was to have taken place in February 2004 on the Beagle 2 lander. The lander reached Mars on Christmas Day 2003, but subsequent attempts to contact it were not successful. The aim of the experiment was to use the shadow of one of the Martian moons, Phobos, to locate the lander on the surface. The last portion of the preparatory work, namely the estimation software, was completed in October 2003. A collaborative paper with researchers at the Open University on modelling the eclipse lightcurve was accepted for publication in the journal Icarus at the end of the year. Whilst it now appears that Beagle 2 has failed, the support work carried out and resulting software products have put Apostolos Christou in a strong position to participate in future planetary missions.