News Colin Pillinger

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27322166

 

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RIP... even if Beagle-2 failed, without his persistence, there wouldn't even have been a Beagle-2.

 

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Mars beauty spot named in honour of Colin Pillinger.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28033648

This stunning scene was captured by the cameras on Nasa's Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity. Here, the leader of the rover's science team, Prof Steve Squyres of Cornell University in New York, explains why he named the landscape after the British space scientist, Colin Pillinger.

Nice gesture.
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