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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/...19105-full.jpg

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/images/...a19106-br2.jpg

I posted a thread about this in 2003 - http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...ead.php?t=4822