Lost and found in space: Beagle 2 seen on Mars 11 years on (Update) 10 hours ago A British-built probe which vanished 11 years ago has been found on the surface of Mars, scientists said on Friday, solving an enduring mystery of space exploration. extract: The Beagle 2 was a £50 million (65 million euros, $76 million) mission to establish whether there was, or had ever been, life on Mars but it was lost without trace on December 26, 2003. The probe was detected during an analysis of images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) last year but scientists said it would now be impossible to retrieve the data which it gathered. "What we can say with some confidence today is that Beagle 2 is no longer lost and furthermore it seems we are not looking at a crash site," David Parker, head of the UK Space Agency, told reporters at a press conference in London. "These images are consistent with the Beagle 2 having successfully landed on Mars but then only partially deploying itself." Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-long-lost-british-space-probe-mars.html#jCp
