Posted on Friday, January 16, 2015
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found UK's Beagle 2, a mission, that was announced lost 11 years ago.
Beagle 2 was launched in June 2003 as part of the Mars Express mission, that deployed Mars Express Orbiter in Mars orbit and was supposed to send Beagle 2 lander on Mars to find evidence for past or present life.
The spacecraft was announced lost as at the predicted time, when Beagle 2 was supposed to send a landing signal home, it didn't, and later tries to reach it failed.
Several Mars orbiters have been used to try and find Beagle to find out what happened to it, but none have been really successful before, until NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which captured Beagle, it's rear cover and possibly it's parachute on images.
Beagle 2 was launched in June 2003 as part of the Mars Express mission, that deployed Mars Express Orbiter in Mars orbit and was supposed to send Beagle 2 lander on Mars to find evidence for past or present life.
The spacecraft was announced lost as at the predicted time, when Beagle 2 was supposed to send a landing signal home, it didn't, and later tries to reach it failed.
Several Mars orbiters have been used to try and find Beagle to find out what happened to it, but none have been really successful before, until NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which captured Beagle, it's rear cover and possibly it's parachute on images.