The European Space Agency has announced the selection of a landing site for the British Mars lander, Beagle 2, that will be carried to the red planet aboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter in 2003. Newly released images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the landing zone. A tiny British-built spacecraft is achieving a variety of firsts in the nanosatellite technology field. Now was there to capture this 360-degree panorama. For the latest spaceflight news and features visit our sister-site, Spaceflight Now .
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