Originally published January 20 2006
Global Surveyor spies Beagle 2 wreckage on Mars
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Images captured by the NASA's Global Surveyor have shown that the Beagle 2 landed on the Mars surface. The aircraft may have hit the ground too hard, causing communication to cease.
The scientist behind the failed space mission to Mars two years ago says that images captured by the NASA's Mars orbiting Global Surveyor indicate that Beagle 2 did indeed land on the Mars surface.
According to Professor Colin Pillinger, the aircraft might have hit the ground too hard as the atmosphere on that planet was less dense than usual because of dust storms.
He also thinks that this may have been the reason for the on-board instruments to be damaged which in turn caused communication links to be snapped.
Professor has been assiduously studying images of the landing site since his spacecraft was lost on 25 December, 2003.
He said: "We've searched 140 square kilometres and we found one place where there are unique features.
One that looks like an impact and the other one that actually looks like Beagle dropping out of its gas filled bags."
The last image of Beagle was taken by its mothership, the Mars Express orbiter December 19, 2003.
Beagle 2, named after Charles Darwin's ship, costing about $90 million was built by British scientists and taken to Mars on the orbiter of the European Space Agency, Mars Express.
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