From: andromedanews@hotmail.com   
      
   I found this :   
      
   Mars Express will be able to forward data and messages between Earth   
   and NASA's Rovers, if needed, and Beagle 2 can do the same via Mars   
   Odyssey as well as Mars Express. Only Nozomi, which was launched too   
   early to be included in the communications scheme, will look after its   
   own data relay requirements alone.   
      
   Future missions are expected to follow a communications standard   
   compatible with that now adopted by ESA and NASA, thus giving Mars   
   Express and Mars Odyssey the potential of maintaining a useful role as   
   communications relays long after their scientific missions have ended.   
      
      
      
   http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/printfriendly.cfm?fobjectid=29185   
      
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