James
16-01-2015, 04:27 PM
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/80304000/jpg/_80304473_main.jpg
The missing Mars robot Beagle2 has been found on the surface of the Red Planet, apparently intact.
High-resolution images taken from orbit have identified its landing location, and it looks to be in one piece.
The UK-led probe tried to make a soft touchdown on the dusty world on Christmas Day, 2003, using parachutes and airbags - but no radio contact was ever made with the probe.
Many scientists assumed it had been destroyed in a high-velocity impact.
The new pictures, acquired by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, give the lie to that notion, and hint at what really happened to the European mission.
Beagle's design incorporated a series of deployable "petals", on which were mounted its solar panels.
From the images, it seems that this system did not unfurl fully.....
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/images/MRO-Mars-Reconnaissance-Orbiter-Beagle-2-Lander-color-pia19105-full.jpg
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/images/MRO-Mars-Reconnaissance-Orbiter-Beagle-2-Lander-white-pia19106-br2.jpg
I posted a thread about this in 2003 - http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4822
The missing Mars robot Beagle2 has been found on the surface of the Red Planet, apparently intact.
High-resolution images taken from orbit have identified its landing location, and it looks to be in one piece.
The UK-led probe tried to make a soft touchdown on the dusty world on Christmas Day, 2003, using parachutes and airbags - but no radio contact was ever made with the probe.
Many scientists assumed it had been destroyed in a high-velocity impact.
The new pictures, acquired by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, give the lie to that notion, and hint at what really happened to the European mission.
Beagle's design incorporated a series of deployable "petals", on which were mounted its solar panels.
From the images, it seems that this system did not unfurl fully.....
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/images/MRO-Mars-Reconnaissance-Orbiter-Beagle-2-Lander-color-pia19105-full.jpg
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/images/MRO-Mars-Reconnaissance-Orbiter-Beagle-2-Lander-white-pia19106-br2.jpg
I posted a thread about this in 2003 - http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4822