29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
... graph shows an example of the measurements made by the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) MIR instrument on ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), featuring the spectral signatures of carbon dioxide (CO2) and ozone (O3). The bottom panel shows the...
17 October 2016
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbitor positions itself ready for its planned orbit insertion on Wednesday
... is the missions Entry, Descent and landing demonstrator Module (EDM) and it has already separated from the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) yesterday at 16:42 CEST (14:42 GMT) as planned. This morning however, it was the turn of the TGO to complete...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
... merely Curiosity itself that was responsible for making the gas. And when the European Space Agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which arrived at Mars in 2016, could find no trace of it, the rovers methane moment of fame started to look frustratingly...
27 April 2018
First images from ExoMars in its new orbit
... that capture surface features of Mars have been returned by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) for the first time since it arrived it its new orbit a few weeks ago. From its lofty position 400 kilometres (km) about the...
14 April 2016
All systems go as ExoMars sends back its first image
... mission operators have been intensively checking the Schiaparelli entry, descent, and landing demonstrator and the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) to ensure they will be ready for when the spacecraft arrives at Mars in October. “All systems have...
15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
... now. Using the ultraviolet and visible spectrometer (UVIS) instrument on board the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a team of European astronomers have now spotted this elusive green line dayglow emission on Mars. Predicted...
