Mystery solved! Three images from our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show Beagle 2 partially deployed on the surface of the planet, ending the mystery of what happened to the mission more than a decade ago. They show that the lander survived its Dec. 25, 2003, touchdown enough to at least partially deploy its solar arrays. This annotated image shows where features seen in an observation by MRO have been interpreted as hardware from the Dec. 25, 2003, arrival at Mars of the United Kingdom's Beagle 2 Lander. The image was taken in 2014 by the orbiter's HiRISE camera. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona/University of Leicester #nasa #esa #hirise #beagle2 #mro #planets #mars #redplanet #science