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Warms the cockles of me heart, it does. Beagle 2 was the tail end of the "we just can't get anything to land on Mars" period of space exploration - that deep hole that included the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, also known as the $110m check your math object lesson.The peer review preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation. This information was critical to the maneuvers required to place the spacecraft in the proper Mars orbit.