12 February 2021
Water vapour spotted escaping from Mars' atmosphere
...of the new result." The escaping vapour was spotted by a team using an instrument called the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD), who used the instrument to analyse light passing through the Martian atmosphere. "This fantastic instrument...
15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
... emission, but this light was UV light, not visible light. Thanks to UVIS, which is part of the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD) suite of instruments on TGO, that has the capability to detect light in the 200–650 nm spectral range...
27 April 2018
First images from ExoMars in its new orbit
...is to sniff out what molecules are present in Mar’s atmosphere. It will do this with two spectrometer suites – NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery) and ACS (Atmospheric Chemistry Suite) – and these instruments have already had their first...
