Wonder if the impact might look a little something like this?





Doug

The crater Genesis left isn't that big. Say for instance Beagle 2 hit the ground in a similar manner, I wonder if it would have left a crater detectable from orbit? perhaps thats why the search by MGS revealed nothing.

If Beagles parachutes failed to deploy how fast would it have hit the ground? Genesis impacted at 193 mph and weighed about 420lbs.

The scientists seem a little more optomistic they will be able to recover some of the sciencs, an article on space.com says they think they've been able to see some of the hexagonal collectors intact.

Both those issues are calculated, very verbosely, in the internal report document.

Terminal velocity would be much higher because of the thinner atmosphere - even thought the genesis SRC was about 7 times heavier than B2.

iirc - the expected impact crater for B2 is between 2 and 6 metres.

Doug