Beagle-2 died due to errors in the software and organizational miscalculations

Errors in the software and organizational miscalculations are the most likely causes of the death of the European descent device Beagle -2. This was announced today in London Parliamentary Deputy State Minister for Science and Technology of Great Britain, Lord Sainsbury.

Lord Sevensbury unveiled the results of the reasons for the death of this scientific module after the descent to Mars. The commission established that "the faulty operation of the equipment or the human factor could not cause the collapse of the BEAGLE-2 device," ITAR-TASS reports.

“The investigation does not blame any of the scientists, but revealed the areas in which it is necessary to correct the miscalculations,” Lord Seinsbury emphasized.

As previously reported, a UFO could become the cause of the death of the Beagle-2 module . European scientists who analyzed the photos of the Beagle-2 module, taken at the time of its separation from the Mars-Express station, argue that an unidentified flying object is visible next to the module.

The mysterious "point" in the photograph has already become the object of the closest study. Scientists do not exclude that it was a UFO could cause the disaster of the European module, reports Scotsman.com .

The cause of the module disaster could also be a mistake in the calculations. At a meeting in London, a hypothesis was discussed, according to which the Beagle-2 broke on the surface of Mars due to the fact that the atmosphere was more rarefied than expected.

Four bright points are visible in the photographs of the place of the module fall (scientists call them a “pearl thread”), which, according to scientists, can be Beagle-2 fragments. Among other versions of the death of the module - a meteorite blow and banal bad luck .

The module disaster provoked a meteorite blow

One of the causes of the death of the European scientific apparatus Beagle-2 could be a meteorite in it during an almost seven-month flight to Mars.

This opinion is shared by the leading expert of the European Space Agency Walter Flury. He drew attention to the fact that Beagle-2 was fixed on the outer surface of the Mars Express automatic station, which delivered it to the Red Planet.

Fluri believes that the slightest damage to the heat -shield of the landing module as a result of a meteorite hit could have catastrophic consequences, as happened with the American shuttle of Columbia.

At the entrance to the dense layers of the Martian atmosphere, the gas -hot gases were displayed to 1200 degrees through the crack inside the apparatus and destroy it. The scientist also did not exclude the refusal of the main parachute or pneumatic pillows of amortizers, which were supposed to soften the module’s blow against the surface of the Mars.

Monstrous bad luck

Beagle-2, when landing, landed in the Martian crater 100 meters deep. “This is a fantastic bad luck,” the scientists say. The estimated area of ​​landing of the device was 70x10 kilometers, but he managed to get into the crater with a diameter of only 1 kilometer.

Scientists came to this conclusion after the enlarged pictures of the landing site of the device were seen. The pictures were taken by the American spacecraft Mars Global Surveyor, located in the orbit of the Red Planet.

Scientists admit that they learned about the existence of the crater only after the Beagle-2 failed there.

Officially "dead" Beagle-2 was announced on February 11

Beagle-2 was officially declared "dead" on February 11 . The European Space Agency (ECA) officially announced the BEAGLE-2 mODEL-2 lost scientific science and stopped its search on the surface of Mars.

All attempts to establish a connection with the scientific apparatus located on the surface of Mars from December 25, 2003 were unsuccessful. The last of them was undertaken on February 3, when the European Mars-Express station and the American Odyssey apparatus, located in the near-Marcian orbit, flew over the area of ​​the alleged planting of Beagle-2.

The main task of Beagle-2 was the search on the surface of the red planet of traces of biological life.