Posted by tourdemars to Mars Express at December 25, 2003 12:00 PM

Beagle 2’s call-sign, a “tune” composed by members of the pop group Blur, sounds like a simple arrangement of ascending notes. But there is more to it than that. Bass guitarist Alex James explains that the nine-note scale was based on a “Fibonacci sequence” – a mathematical pattern that re-occurs throughout nature. Fibonacci numbers are not random. In a Fibonacci series, each number is the sum of the previous two.