In 2003...

Beagle 2 Mars rover was sent to mars, produceing images of mars that stole the worlds breathe away...then it lost tramission by unknown means...is it possible that there is more to this story that meets the eye?

It is quite strange that it just lost transmission, I think the government is hiding something

In my honest opinion, it crashed due to reasons unknown. But by reasons unknown I mean plain engineering failures and not some sinister reasons to hide something.

Best,
Badeskov

Anything crashing into the surface of Mars with a velocity much higher than engineered for will exhibit that behavior

Honestly, I can't see what there is to hide. We have had probes on Mars before that.

Best,
Badeskov

CHRIST ALMIGHTY!!!! WHY????? It is SO easy for something to go wrong, why does it have to be a conspiracy EVERY SINGLE TIME????

yeah it just broke down i guess:) nothing here to look in too.

yeah i mean come on...it just broke down...it don't mean something wierd has happened to it or aliens have attacked

What government would that be?

It was ESA, not NASA, that was resposible for the Beagle 2. And, this was not an expensive lander. It was, by space exploration standards, cheap and was simply considered an add on experiment. The real aim of the mission was the Mars Express orbiter which is still working perfectly. Beagle 2 would just have been a bonus if it had worked.



http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4752

Well said hazzard. It should also be noted that Beagle 2 did not send back images that took the worlds breath away because it didn't send back any images. It's camera was packed away until after it landed. As it almost certainly crashed on landing the camera was never used.

The question of exactly what happened to Beagle 2 and to NASA's Mars Polar Lander, which also went missing during an attempted landing in December 1999, may be answered by NASA's latest Mars satellite, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is equipped with the most powerful camera ever sent to Mars. It is hoped that it will image the landing sites of both of these lost craft to determine if they crashed into the surface or suffered from some other type of failure.

That shouldnt be a problem, the MRO is equipped with one serious camera..



http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/galler...e-up2-annot.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-OYoHJlyGM

'more to this story that meets the eye'!

That movie should be lots of fun. But like many other scifi movies, and the OP, it is somewhat inaccurate, and in this case, the Beagel 2 didnt have a rover.

Everyone knows that a big robot destroyed it. It was on the tv, even the de-bunkers should know that:)

Lets not get paranoid.
Just because a piece of equipment stops working/breaks down doesn't instantly mean something alien or sinister took place.
Is it impossible some alien stood by and got pissed off and zapped it... no, not impossible. But get real here, what would be the odds of that?
It was a simple break down, NOTHING MORE...END OF STORY!!!

it was a robot that destroyed it!!!!

hey!!! its a joke! have you seen the new transformers trailer, if so then you will understand.

Looks awesome, despite being a Michael Bay film.

this is so pethetic.

You posting your standard oneliner and your little rolleyes smileys, thats whats pathetic. Do you have anything, anything at all, that will contribute to the debate, any debate, in anyway!!?

Calm down buddy! I just think the government knows something that we don't. It could've been a crash or faulty equipment on Mars, but I still think they know something.

who knows;)

Sorry, last straw and all that. Everything they know is put on their websites, even down to technical data.

I wish people would stop looking for stuff that isn't there, I really do. Question what happens around you but to a point, y'know?

Sometimes you dont have to go looking. Sometimes its plain to see!

It's alright, and your right. People should set their sights to stuff around them, but to a point. It's just human nature to explore unknown things and try to answer it, or make it make sense so it could seem less scary and uknown.

Your right. At first everything is unknown, until we know otherwise:)