ExoMars
Sign in to saveExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is an astrobiology programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) composed of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), the Schiaparelli lander, and a future rover Rosalind Franklin. The goals of ExoMars are to search for signs of past life on Mars, investigate how the Martian water and geochemical environment varies, investigate atmospheric trace gases and their sources and, by doing so, demonstrate the technologies for a future Mars sample-return mission.
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- ExoMars
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- Artist's illustration of ExoMars's Trace Gas Orbiter (left), Schiaparelli lander (middle), and rover (right)
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- Image depicting the three spacecraft of the mission, an orbiter at left, lander at center, and rover at right, against a Martian landscape and sky.
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- Mars reconnaissance
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- ESA, Roscosmos (until 2022)
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- Trace Gas Orbiter: (in progress) Schiaparelli:
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- ExoMars ESA mission insignia
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Cooperation with NASA
- Cooperation with Russia
- First launch in 2016
- Delays and suspension
- Restart
- Objectives
- Mission profile
- First launch (2016)
- Trace Gas Orbiter
- ''Schiaparelli'' EDM lander
- Second launch (2028)
- ''Rosalind Franklin'' rover
- See also
- References
- External links
ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is an astrobiology programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) composed of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), the Schiaparelli lander, and a future rover Rosalind Franklin. The goals of ExoMars are to search for signs of past life on Mars, investigate how the Martian water and geochemical environment varies, investigate atmospheric trace gases and their sources and, by doing so, demonstrate the technologies for a future Mars sample-return mission.
The first part of the programme is a mission launched in 2016. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and a test stationary lander called Schiaparelli (designed to test new key technologies to safely deliver the subsequent rover mission) were launched on 14 March 2016. TGO entered Mars orbit on 19 October 2016, and proceeded to map the sources of methane () and other trace gases present in the Martian atmosphere that could be evidence for possible biological or geological activity. The TGO features four instruments and acts as a communications relay satellite. The Schiaparelli experimental lander separated from TGO on 16 October and was maneuvered to land in Meridiani Planum, but it crashed on the surface of Mars.