August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... missions to the outer and inner planets of the Solar System. The high-performance HRSC (High Resolution Stereo Camera) on board the Mars Express spacecraft has been delivering high-resolution images of the Martian surface...
November 2018
Pole star rising
... 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...
14 April 2016
All systems go as ExoMars sends back its first image
... 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 celestial...
17 June 2016
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter Sends Back First Mars Image
... confirmed the sensitivity of the instrument and are sharp,” says Antoine Pommerol, co-investigator of the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System at the University of Bern. “It seems to be well-focused and the signal level seems to be close...
21 November 2016
The grandest of canyons is found on Mercury with the aid of MESSENGER
... hemisphere and overlaps the Rembrandt Basin – a large crater formed by a relatively recent impact – was found using stereo images from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. Its discovery reveals...
24 September 2018
Hayabusa2 rovers land successfully on Ryugu
..., a leader on the MINERVA-II1 project. Packed with seven cameras between them, the rovers job is to create a stereo image of the surface of Ryugu, along with measuring its temperature, rotational motion, and acceleration forces. After...
