The European Space Agency and the Russian Federal Space Agency on Monday launched a probe in a joint mission to explore Mars. The mission, dubbed ExoMars, aims to bring humanity another step closer to setting foot on the Red Planet and perhaps discovering extraterrestrial life.
The spacecraft was blasted into space atop a Proton rocket from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan Monday at 5:31 a.m. Eastern time.
Proton's
payload consists of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and a lander called
Schiaparelli - See more at:
http://www.space.com/32182-exomars-mars-mission-launch-preview.html#sthash.CaKdKRG7.dpuf
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Artist's concept of Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter releasing the Schiaparelli landing demonstrator near Mars.
Credit: ESA - See more at: http://www.space.com/32182-exomars-mars-mission-launch-preview.html#sthash.CaKdKRG7.dpuf
Proton's
payload consists of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and a lander called
Schiaparelli - See more at:
http://www.space.com/32182-exomars-mars-mission-launch-preview.html#sthash.CaKdKRG7.dpuf
ExoMars payload Trace Gas Orbiter launches Schiaparelli lander to Mars |
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| the ‘team of teams’ comprising the flight engineers and specialists at ESA’s ESOC control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, who will fly the ExoMars orbiter, performed a dress rehearsal. |
Related/Background:
- ExoMars on its Way to Solve the Red Planet's Mysteries
- European-Russian Mars Mission Launches Next Week
- Euro-Russian Mission to Mars Blasts Off From Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Mission control ready for Mars launch
Artist's
concept of Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter releasing the Schiaparelli
landing demonstrator near Mars. - See more at:
http://www.space.com/32182-exomars-mars-mission-launch-preview.html#sthash.CaKdKRG7.dpuf
Proton's
payload consists of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and a lander called
Schiaparelli - See more at:
http://www.space.com/32182-exomars-mars-mission-launch-preview.html#sthash.CaKdKRG7.dpuf
Proton's
payload consists of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and a lander called
Schiaparelli - See more at:
http://www.space.com/32182-exomars-mars-mission-launch-preview.html#sthash.CaKdKRG7.dpuf
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