#OTD 16 January 2015, the #Beagle2 lander was found on #Mars. Seen in images taken by #NASA’s MRO, the lander was partially deployed, meaning that it did indeed land successfully on Mars on Christmas Day 2003! 🧪🔭
@science.esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social
@science.esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 11:46 PM
#OTD 16 January 2015, the #Beagle2 lander was found on #Mars. Seen in images taken by #NASA’s MRO, the lander was partially deployed, meaning that it did indeed land successfully on Mars on Christmas Day 2003! 🧪🔭
@science.esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social
@science.esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social
When Judith Pillinger and I suggested a series of plaques to commemorate #Beagle2, we weren’t sure it would happen - but it has! Yesterday I unveiled the first of 14 commissioned by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social at Leicester #NSC. Yay! Read more in the next link #space #mars 🔭 1/2
June 8, 2026 at 1:18 PM
When Judith Pillinger and I suggested a series of plaques to commemorate #Beagle2, we weren’t sure it would happen - but it has! Yesterday I unveiled the first of 14 commissioned by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social at Leicester #NSC. Yay! Read more in the next link #space #mars 🔭 1/2
Bit of a squeeeee moment as I remember that this time last year I was talking to Dr. Pillinger as I helped her to put together the life sized model of Beagle2 for an evening event at the Royal Academy. @royalsociety #Beagle2
July 4, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Bit of a squeeeee moment as I remember that this time last year I was talking to Dr. Pillinger as I helped her to put together the life sized model of Beagle2 for an evening event at the Royal Academy. @royalsociety #Beagle2
[🧵1/2] On Christmas Day 2003, #Beagle2 touched down on Mars only to fall silent and be presumed lost for over a decade...
It wasn’t until 2015 that NASA imagery confirmed the spacecraft had landed safely and on target, its silence likely caused by a single solar panel failing to fully deploy.
It wasn’t until 2015 that NASA imagery confirmed the spacecraft had landed safely and on target, its silence likely caused by a single solar panel failing to fully deploy.
June 8, 2026 at 12:39 PM
[🧵1/2] On Christmas Day 2003, #Beagle2 touched down on Mars only to fall silent and be presumed lost for over a decade...
It wasn’t until 2015 that NASA imagery confirmed the spacecraft had landed safely and on target, its silence likely caused by a single solar panel failing to fully deploy.
It wasn’t until 2015 that NASA imagery confirmed the spacecraft had landed safely and on target, its silence likely caused by a single solar panel failing to fully deploy.
Well if #Beagle2 had been as well designed then the solar panels would not have obscured the comms?🤣🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ 👍 #gromit3 #beagle3 #aerospacebristol #space
July 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Well if #Beagle2 had been as well designed then the solar panels would not have obscured the comms?🤣🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ 👍 #gromit3 #beagle3 #aerospacebristol #space
Show them your inner Beagle2.
(A powerless failure)
(A powerless failure)
February 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Show them your inner Beagle2.
(A powerless failure)
(A powerless failure)
Completely unrelated to the science but, what the heck is up with these retrovirus names?! Quasimodo?! McClintok?! HSM Beagle2??!! This is why we can’t have nice things…
REFEREE 1: “I conclude with a simple, direct statement - this is the best paper I have read all year!”
#TransparentPeerReview
Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses
@juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
#TransparentPeerReview
Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses
@juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
June 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Completely unrelated to the science but, what the heck is up with these retrovirus names?! Quasimodo?! McClintok?! HSM Beagle2??!! This is why we can’t have nice things…
Geraint Morgan, Professor at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social worked on the @esa.int Rosetta and Beagle2 missions and has spent the last 32 years translating multi-disciplinary know-how from planetary missions to Earth. Read his perspective in Europlanet Magazine: www.europlanet.org/europlanet-m...
October 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Geraint Morgan, Professor at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social worked on the @esa.int Rosetta and Beagle2 missions and has spent the last 32 years translating multi-disciplinary know-how from planetary missions to Earth. Read his perspective in Europlanet Magazine: www.europlanet.org/europlanet-m...
Poor Beagle2.
January 16, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Poor Beagle2.
Our beagle brothers Fergus and Feargal back around Christmas 2012. Miss them so much. Recently got personalized plates “Beagle1” and “Beagle2” for our Jeeps. A couple of our bassets definitely have beagle in them. Keep the beagle pics coming!
May 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Our beagle brothers Fergus and Feargal back around Christmas 2012. Miss them so much. Recently got personalized plates “Beagle1” and “Beagle2” for our Jeeps. A couple of our bassets definitely have beagle in them. Keep the beagle pics coming!
Dr Paul Bate @ukspaceagency.bsky.social announces at #Appleton2025 that the #Beagle2 programme will be celebrated in 2026 with the installation of 10 plaques around UK linked to UK and Europe’s first successful landing of a probe on another planet.👏👏👏 #spacepolicy #space @esa.int
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Dr Paul Bate @ukspaceagency.bsky.social announces at #Appleton2025 that the #Beagle2 programme will be celebrated in 2026 with the installation of 10 plaques around UK linked to UK and Europe’s first successful landing of a probe on another planet.👏👏👏 #spacepolicy #space @esa.int
That’s an impressive set! Sadly i only have one space tree bauble, but i put it up every year to remind me of the UK #Beagle2 that now sits covered in dust on Mars - “the dog that did but no one heard”…
December 1, 2024 at 10:52 PM
That’s an impressive set! Sadly i only have one space tree bauble, but i put it up every year to remind me of the UK #Beagle2 that now sits covered in dust on Mars - “the dog that did but no one heard”…
Replica Beagle2 @ICC Belfast for Eastercon today. Pics : folded up as it would be on landing, Robert Hill, Director of the Northern Ireland Space Office demonstrating during his talk the robot arm with many sensors, & a tiny pop up bit that was a curved mirror allowing a 360 degree pic to be taken.
April 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Replica Beagle2 @ICC Belfast for Eastercon today. Pics : folded up as it would be on landing, Robert Hill, Director of the Northern Ireland Space Office demonstrating during his talk the robot arm with many sensors, & a tiny pop up bit that was a curved mirror allowing a 360 degree pic to be taken.
#OTD 19 December 2003, #ESA's #MarsExpress released the #Beagle2 lander that it had been carrying since launch on 2 June 2003. Beagle 2 was sent on its journey to the surface of Mars, where it was expected to land early on 25 December 🧑🎄
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
December 19, 2024 at 10:45 AM
#OTD 19 December 2003, #ESA's #MarsExpress released the #Beagle2 lander that it had been carrying since launch on 2 June 2003. Beagle 2 was sent on its journey to the surface of Mars, where it was expected to land early on 25 December 🧑🎄
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
European (#ESA) #Mars probe #Beagle2 stopped responding on #ThisDayInHistory in 2003, just prior to its landing. An #exobiology mission, it was cleverly named for the ship that took #CharlesDarwin on his long scientific exploration. This Beagle, alas, touched down too forcefully.
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
European (#ESA) #Mars probe #Beagle2 stopped responding on #ThisDayInHistory in 2003, just prior to its landing. An #exobiology mission, it was cleverly named for the ship that took #CharlesDarwin on his long scientific exploration. This Beagle, alas, touched down too forcefully.
O Reino Unido homenageará a sonda Beagle 2 com a instalação de 13 placas comemorativas, marcando 22 anos de sua aterrissagem em Marte, ocorrida em 25 de dezembro de 2003.
#reinounido #beagle2 #marte #exploracaoespacial #homenagem
#reinounido #beagle2 #marte #exploracaoespacial #homenagem
Reino Unido homenageia Beagle 2 com 13 novas placas
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June 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
O Reino Unido homenageará a sonda Beagle 2 com a instalação de 13 placas comemorativas, marcando 22 anos de sua aterrissagem em Marte, ocorrida em 25 de dezembro de 2003.
#reinounido #beagle2 #marte #exploracaoespacial #homenagem
#reinounido #beagle2 #marte #exploracaoespacial #homenagem
Lost Beagle2 probe found on Mars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars
High-resolution images taken from orbit identify the land...
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Lost Beagle2 probe found on Mars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
How frustrating for the team to know it got so close to working. Science. It's difficult, essential, and sometimes heartbreaking. #Beagle2
November 13, 2024 at 4:37 PM
How frustrating for the team to know it got so close to working. Science. It's difficult, essential, and sometimes heartbreaking. #Beagle2
Amazing! #beagle #mars Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars - BBC News <a href="http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
November 19, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Amazing! #beagle #mars Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars - BBC News <a href="http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
Beagle 2 found? A guide to all the @HiRISE images of #Beagle2 http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/01160800-beagle-2-found.html http://t.co/jCu4JO6lKM
March 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Beagle 2 found? A guide to all the @HiRISE images of #Beagle2 http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/01160800-beagle-2-found.html http://t.co/jCu4JO6lKM
Great stuff RT @Peter_Grindrod: All of my #beagle2 context images. Feel free to use and share.
http://www.petergrindrod.net/archives/1359 http://t.co/Ujk8eN4cWN
http://www.petergrindrod.net/archives/1359 http://t.co/Ujk8eN4cWN
March 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Great stuff RT @Peter_Grindrod: All of my #beagle2 context images. Feel free to use and share.
http://www.petergrindrod.net/archives/1359 http://t.co/Ujk8eN4cWN
http://www.petergrindrod.net/archives/1359 http://t.co/Ujk8eN4cWN
It may never be activated, but this is still great news.
BBC News - Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
BBC News - Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars
High-resolution images taken from orbit identify the land...
www.bbc.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
It may never be activated, but this is still great news.
BBC News - Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886
BBC News - Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886