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Nature 415, 363-364 (24 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415363b

Costs increased for Mars Express, not just Beagle

David Southwood1

  1. Director, Scientific Programme, ESA8, 10 Rue Mario-Nikis, F-75738 Paris cedex 15, France

Your News story "Europe's Mars mission to pay out for Beagle lander" (Nature 414, 679; 2001) reported that the European Space Agency (ESA) "has been forced to allocate 36 million euros" (US$32 million) to the UK-led Beagle 2 lander. This is misleading.