12 February 2021
Water vapour spotted escaping from Mars' atmosphere
... first time that the Orbiter has detected a new gas. ExoMars is a joint ESA-Roscosmos programme comprising of two missions:... the Trace Gas Orbiter mission," says Håkan Svedhem, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter project scientist. "This is the first new ...
19 October 2016
Success for TGO orbit insertion and its looking good for Schiaparelli too
Things are looking good for ESA’s ExoMars 2016 mission as the eagerly awaited signal confirming that the TGO had ... will start at the end of 2017. It will also act as a relay for ESA’s ExoMars rover when it heads to the Red Planet in 2020.
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
... tomorrow, ESA’s long term martian resident, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), has spotted puzzling new...by the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) MIR instrument on ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), featuring the spectral signatures of carbon ...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
... in the Spring of 2021, following its 2020 launch on a Russian Proton rocket. Using a Roscosmos built lander, the Exomars Rover will spend a year on the Martian surface drilling two metres into the soil, to seek out...
08 February 2019
ESA's new Mars rover has a new name
...launched by the UK Space Agency in July last year. The ExoMars rover will be the first of its kind to combine the ...present – life buried underground. The rover is part of the ExoMars programme, a joint endeavour between ESA and the Russian State ...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
... preparation for searching for life on Mars, a PhD student is testing a powerful spectrometer that will be used on the ExoMars mission by exploring similar environments on Earth - and where best to look but deep underground in Yorkshire, England. The...
