What happened to Beagle 2?

Question

Come to think of it.....what happened to Beagle 1?

Answer 1

We're not really sure. Either there ws some sort of failure during decent which resulted in a total loss, there coild of been some antenna / radio malfuction or more likely it landed in a small crater and turned over.

We should be able to see traces of it from with the current generation of mars orbiters. As we can't (or haven't yet, it is rather small) I think the crater idea is the most likely.

Answer 2

Beagle 1 is now history...

Beagle 2 also, but the cause of the Beagle 2 crash is still unknown. The most likely cause is the air bag system, which was failing all tests before the launch. ESA was not happy with their "subcontractor" and decided to never allow such a "cheap extra payload" again.

I think there are some images out of the landing ellipse, which showed things which could be Beagle 2.

Answer 3

The potential for separated items to regain contact and damage the spacecraft has posed a significant risk to recent, current, and planned JPL missions, and it may have been a factor in the Beagle 2 mission failure. Conduct flight tests or analyses to verify that items separated from a lander or return capsule during the descent phase of a mission remain separate by a substantial margin.

Description of Driving Event:

No signal was ever received from the joint British/European Space Agency Beagle 2 lander, carried on the Mars Express spacecraft, after its scheduled landing time in December 2003. The following year, the Beagle 2 Commission of Inquiry identified a number of lessons learned. One lesson (Reference 1) stated the need for positive means of assuring that separated items (e.g., covers, main parachute) do not collide.

The potential for separated items to regain contact and damage the spacecraft has also posed a significant risk to recent, current, and planned JPL missions. The system and mission designs have responded to this concern with positive measures to assure that items separated in flight will not regain contact:

The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM for short, will identify minerals on the surface of Mars. If Beagle crashed into the surface and churned up a rather large area of soil in the process, CRISM might find signs of different minerals in the newly exposed subsurface that don't match those of the surrounding terrain.

"It would be like having a mineral fingerprint pointing to the spot where Beagle 2 landed," Zurek said.

Answer 4

Not sure.  Can't find mention of either movie on imdb.

Answer 5

Beagle 1 rotted away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Beagle

Beagle 2, "Lost in Space" presumed crashed on Mars of failed to deploy.

http://www.beagle2.com/index.htm

Answer 6

stolen by the sycorax

eaten by the great galactic ghoul

who knows?

Answer 7

Beagle one became a coast guard post.

Beagle two either hard-landed, or softlanded but did not properly deploy. (When you consider that it was built by a bunch of 'proper job' worzels in the westuvengland, it's not too surprising!)