http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=9
http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.html http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM8O8374OD_0.html Just go to the ESA site and all of the babble is filtered out. No crashes due to measurement confusion here. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ezra Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2003-12-24 21:24 Subject: [USMA:27957] Mixed Bag on Mars > Just read up about the Beagle 2 mission sent by the UK to Mars. > > Liked how the BBC web site referred to the distance travelled by the probe in kilometres. Then I was surprised to read the quotation by the mission manager that the probe will be slowed to a speed of "36 miles per hour". I'm guessing that the BBC didn't convert what the mission manager said to Imperial. How sad, then, that a British scientist in 2003 would still be using outdated units. > > Ezra > >
