Advertisements may grace the balloons that will slow the fall of the European
Space Agency’s Beagle 2 probe from the Mars Express spacecraft. Beagle 2 is
expected to reach the Red Planet in 2003. Beagle 2 team leader Colin Pillinger
of the Open University in Milton Keynes says: “If we are short of funds and
somebody wants to put their name on it, that’s fine by me.”
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