Beagle 2 Rover

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The Beagle 2 Rover is an American space probe from the movie continuity family.

I wonder what happened to Beagle 1?

Beagle 2 Rover was a Briti-...American exploration craft launched by the European Spa-...by NASA to search for life on Mars. It disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Fiction

IDW movie comics

Arriving on Mars, Starscream managed to get ahold of the Beagle 2 and theorized that the rover may have been created by the AllSpark, sensing its presence on a nearby planet. He and his troops soon left to search for the artifact. The Reign of Starscream #1

Transformers film

The Beagle 2 successfully deployed on Mars, and operated for a few short moments, transmitting live images of the Martian surface to Earth. Then, without warning, a massive shadow appeared on its camera, and all transmissions ceased.

The official report stated that when Beagle 2's parachute and airbag systems failed to deploy properly, the craft crashed into the planet surface. The mission was deemed a failure... or so Sector Seven would have you believe.

Once the threat of giant robots from space became clear, the President ordered Sector Seven's agent Tom Banachek to brief Defense Secretary Keller of what really happened. Banachek disclosed that the rover had in fact transmitted thirteen seconds of footage, including its own destruction by a large humanoid creature. Transformers

It was the only warning we would ever get.

Notes

In real life, the Beagle 2 craft had a lander but not a rover, it was a European Space Agency mission, the guy counting in the trailer should have been speaking German, and we can't get live streaming video from Mars.
The Beagle 2 lander was supposed to touch down in December of 2003 in real life, which would theoretically place its destroyer on Mars around then.
- In real-life, Beagle 2 wasn't even destroyed. On January 16, 2015, the NASA Mars Reconnassiance Orbiter (MRO) discovered, using the HiRISE camera, that Beagle 2 had indeed landed as planned, but two of the four solar panels failed to deploy, blocking the communications antenna.
All of these supposed inaccuracies might be due to Sector Seven's campaign of disinformation.