Beagle 3 and 4 Mars landers planned for 2007

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What do you do when you lose a Lander?
Simple, launch another TWO! Huh?
And why on Earth would anyone sponsor Beagle’s 3 and 4?

Beagles 3 & 4 (on the way);
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1223765,00.html
An image (by ESA) of Beagle 3 Lander;
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~gatto/mars/expressbeagle2burn.jpg

Might have something to do with "control";
ESA and NASA (in bed);
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2705301

Or, "finding" a "lost" Lander;
From;
http://www.planetary.org/news/2004/dialogue_pillinger.html
“Q: A few weeks ago Michael Malin released an image taken by his Mars Orbital Camera on board Mars Global Surveyor that might show Beagle 2 -- what are your thoughts about that?”
Where has this image gone?
 
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Beagle was sent to look for signs of life, or life itself.
It's a goal worth shooting for...again...and again...until we get it right.
 
yeah, i guess its time for the english to actually do something major, or even minor space wise, the press over here makes fun of guy a lot but i think these 2 will have some bugs ironed out of them, as in actually working this time...