June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
...companies contributed to Beagle 2. Red planet ahead Beagle 2 was part of the ESA Mars Express (MEx) Mission launched in June 2003. Mars Express is still orbiting Mars and returning scientific data on the planet. Beagle 2 was successfully ejected from...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
... year. Overall, however, the turnover situation was not as bad as originally feared. In fact, thanks to the launch of Mars Express in June 2003, an interplanetary probe that had inherited many of the Rosetta subsystems and had a very similar...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... HRSC (High Resolution Stereo Camera) on board the Mars Express spacecraft has been delivering high-resolution images of the ...Martian surface since 2004. The now concluded Venus Express mission was similar, and investigated the atmosphere of Venus...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... additional Cluster II satellites on 9 August. Three years later, another ESA mission, Mars Express, flew aboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket. This first European Mars spacecraft along with the Fregat upper stage were successfully placed on an intermediate...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
...Witasse defended his PhD in the field of Earth and Mars’ upper atmospheres in July 2000 at the University Joseph ... on projects including Huygens, Chandrayaan-1, Venus Express, Mars Express, and ExoMars and since January 2015 as project scientist for JUICE...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... with salty liquid brine. Impact craters and an intricate channel network photographed by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter. The notion of liquid briny flows occurring on Mars is not at all new: in 1912 the Swedish scientist Arrhenius suggested that certain...
