Blur on Mars

Hi gang. Just read that a band called "Blur" created the phone home beacon
for the mars rover.

I am not a big fan of the band but found it an interesting choice.

Is there a website with an audio file of it?

Thanks.
DB.

"Doctor Bombay" wrote in message ...
Hi gang. Just read that a band called "Blur" created the phone home beacon
for the mars rover.

I am not a big fan of the band but found it an interesting choice.

Is there a website with an audio file of it?

Thanks.
DB.

Blur wrote a tune to be used by the (apparently) failed British
"Beagle-2" Mars lander, not the American "Spirit" lander which
successfully landed two days ago. Beagle-2 did not feature a Mars
rover.

The tune was to have been transmitted back to Earth by Beagle-2 once
it landed on the Martian surface, but of course it was never heard as
no signal has been received from the spacecraft. You can hear Blur's
tune at http://www.beagle2.com/resources/blursignal.htm.

Justin

Blur wrote a tune to be used by the (apparently) failed British
"Beagle-2" Mars lander, not the American "Spirit" lander which
successfully landed two days ago. Beagle-2 did not feature a Mars
rover.

The tune was to have been transmitted back to Earth by Beagle-2 once
it landed on the Martian surface, but of course it was never heard as
no signal has been received from the spacecraft. You can hear Blur's
tune at http://www.beagle2.com/resources/blursignal.htm.

Justin

Hi Justin thanks for the info.
It is very fascinating.
Just wondering one thing though.
How did the powers that be come about making the decision to use a band like
BLUR?
They are a somewhat new band with a small following.
Why not choose The Stones or AC/DC, or Iron Maiden for that matter?
Was there a contest or something?

Thanks.
DB

Hi Justin thanks for the info.
It is very fascinating.
Just wondering one thing though.
How did the powers that be come about making the decision to use a band
like
BLUR?
They are a somewhat new band with a small following.
Why not choose The Stones or AC/DC, or Iron Maiden for that matter?
Was there a contest or something?

Thanks.
DB


Didn't NASA purchase another song from blur a few years ago? Perhaps they
still have a good relationship, buddy-buddy kinda thing

Didn't NASA purchase another song from blur a few years ago? Perhaps they
still have a good relationship, buddy-buddy kinda thing

Actually... Beagle isnt nasa... disregard above comment... maybe ESA is
trying to be like nasa lol

"Doctor Bombay" wrote in message .. .

Hi Justin thanks for the info.
It is very fascinating.
Just wondering one thing though.
How did the powers that be come about making the decision to use a band like
BLUR?
They are a somewhat new band with a small following.
Why not choose The Stones or AC/DC, or Iron Maiden for that matter?
Was there a contest or something?

Blur got themselves involved back in 1998 I believe. They actually
recorded a song called "Beagle 2" which was released with the "No
Distance Left To Run" single. Some of the revenue from that single
was used to raise money for the Beagle 2 project. Blur also persuaded
a contemporary British artist (whose name escapes me at the moment) to
come up with a designb for a calibration target image for Beagle 2's
imagers.

IIRC, Blur's song "Beagle 2" formed the basis for the 9-tone tune that
Beagle 2 was to transmit to Earth once it landed on the surface. It's
somewhat remeniscent of Luna 10's transmission of the "Internationale"
from lunar orbit in 1966.

A simple Google search should yield this information for you...

Justin

(Justin Wigg) writes:

Blur also persuaded a contemporary British artist (whose name escapes
me at the moment) to come up with a designb for a calibration target
image for Beagle 2's imagers.

It was Damien Hirst. And it's not only a design/image, it is an actual
painting.


Jochem

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"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take
away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In article , Doctor Bombay wrote:

Hi Justin thanks for the info.
It is very fascinating.
Just wondering one thing though.
How did the powers that be come about making the decision to use a band like
BLUR?
They are a somewhat new band with a small following.

They're not that minor in .uk; one of the well-known names of the 1990s,
I'd have said.

As I understand it, it was serendipity; one of the band members was
aware of and enthusiastic about the project, met Pillinger, click click
click and they ended up providing some PR (and, at one point, funding
underwriting) for it. The tune was more a publicity trick than anything
else...

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-Andrew Gray

"Doctor Bombay" Why not choose The Stones or AC/DC, or Iron Maiden

I hear Eddie Cantor has done some good stuff......