Has Missing Beagle 2 Been Found On Mars?

On Christmas Day 2003, Beagle 2 was supposed to send a signal from the surface of Mars. That signal never came. Two months later, the British spacecraft was declared lost.

Now it may be found. At a press conference today, the UK Space Agency will give an update on the mission, more than a decade after it launched.

Beagle 2 is part of the pantheon of glorious British failures. Its instigator, Colin Pillinger, who died last year, was an eccentric and brilliant space scientist.

But while it may have started as a sketch on a beer mat, and met a red dusty fate, Beagle 2 was a big technological achievement.

According to a NASA report it was “an ambitious, risky mission, driven by the possibility of outstanding scientific return value”… see more

source: skynews

Tags: Mars, Missing Beagle 2, Science

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