Articles tagged: Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS)

• 27 April 2018 First images from ExoMars in its new orbit

  ...of a 40 km-long segment of the Korolev Crater topped with ice, as it tested out its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) after a long-distance software update. “We transmitted new software to the instrument at the start of the test phase...

  • Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS)
  • ExoMars
  • Korolev Crater
  • Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD)
  • Trace Gas Orbiter
• 14 April 2016 All systems go as ExoMars sends back its first image

  ...one frame from the other reveals a number of equally offset positive and negative images of stars. The image was taken by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, and points to a randomly selected portion of the sky close to the southern...

  • ESA–Roscosmos
  • ExoMars spacecraft
  • First light ExoMars
  • Schiaparelli
  • Trace Gas Orbiter
• November 2018 Pole star rising

  ... the umbilical release mechanism (URM) for the rover vehicle has been entrusted to Sener Polska, and the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), part of the instrument payload on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, has been produced by a start...

  • ESA
  • Manfred Lachs
  • Polish Space Industry Association (SPACE PL)
  • Space Research Centre (SRC)
  Authors: Katarzyna Malinowska