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At the time, considerable attempts were made to locate any signal from the Mars Polar Lander, and in February 2000 the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire helped with the search.

According to a recording that has now been declassified by the Jodrell Bank Observatory, astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell'sradio telescope, which was hidden in the archives until recently, shows the Russian craft orbiting the moon and crash-landing onto its surface at 15:50 on July 21, just a few hours before the Americans lifted In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans' Eagle Lander carrying astronauts towards the moon's surface.

He retired as director of Jodrell Bank observatory in 1981 and his former employer, Manchester University, will this week announce plans to award him an honorary degree.

If you or your children are interested in science, Jodrell Bank Observatory is close by and you can examine the Lovell Radio Telescope at first hand as well as watch the planets and check out the exhibits in the visitor centre.

Dr Ian Morison, who joined Jodrell Bank Observatory in 1965 and was a designer of the 217 Merlin Array radio telescope, will present Proving Einstein Right in association with Wolverhampton Astronomical Society next Monday from 7.

As such, he is now making a case for sites such as Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, Isaac Newton's House in Lincolnshire and the Jodrell Bank Observatory near Manchester to be considered as possible future contenders for world heritage status.

A powerful radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, also failed to detect Beagle's call sign, despite scanning the Martian surface late Thursday.

But there was no reply from Beagle 2 early today at the 110-foot radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire.