Updates ExoMars News & Updates

[Notebook]

10 April 2019
New evidence of the impact of the recent planet-encompassing dust storm on water in the atmosphere, and a surprising lack of methane, are among the scientific highlights of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter’s first year in orbit.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/H...st_results_from_the_ExoMars_Trace_Gas_Orbiter

 

[Notebook]

Title ExoMars PanCam filters
Released 27/05/2019 9:00 am
Copyright M. de la Nougerede, UCL/MSSL
Description
This may look like a collection of colourful contact lenses and in some respects there are some similarities: these are the filters through which the ExoMars rover – Rosalind Franklin – will view Mars in visible and near infrared wavelengths

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2019/05/ExoMars_PanCam_filters

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2016.1548

 

[Notebook]

30 May 2019
On 15 June, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will follow a different path. An ‘Inclination Change Manoeuvre’ will put the spacecraft in an altered orbit, enabling it to pick up crucial status signals from the ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin, due to land on the Red Planet in 2021.
After completing a complex series of manoeuvres during 2017, ExoMars TGO is now orbiting the Red Planet every two hours, collecting scientific data from NASA’s surface-bound rover and lander, and relaying it back to Earth. At the same time, the orbiter is gathering its own data on the planet’s atmosphere, water abundance and alien surface.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/ExoMars_orbiter_prepares_for_Rosalind_Franklin

 

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Title Fly over the ExoMars 2020 landing site
Released: 16/09/2019
Length 00:01:09
Language English
Footage Type Animation
Copyright TU Dortmund/NASA JPL-Caltech
Description
Scientists at TU Dortmund University are generating high-accuracy 3D models of the terrain in Oxia Planum on Mars, ahead of the arrival of the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin, in 2021. The Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) have a resolution of about 25 cm per pixel and will help scientists to understand the geography and geological characteristics of the region and to plan the path of the rover around the site.

www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2019/09/Fly_over_the_ExoMars_2020_landing_site

 

[Notebook]

15 October 2019
Positive steps towards solving the problems discovered with the ExoMars mission parachutes have been taken in the last month to keep on track for the July-August 2020 launch window.
The mission needs two parachutes – each with its own pilot chute for extraction – to help slow the descent module prior to landing on Mars. Once the atmospheric drag has slowed the descent module from around 21 000 km/h to 1700 km/h, the first parachute will be deployed. Some 20 seconds later, at about 400 km/h, the second parachute will open. Following separation of the parachutes about 1 km above ground the braking engines will kick in to safely deliver a landing platform – with a rover encapsulated inside – onto the surface of Mars for its scientific mission. The entire sequence from atmospheric entry to landing takes just six minutes.

http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...xploration/ExoMars/ExoMars_parachute_progress

 

[Notebook]

ExoMars finds new gas signatures in the martian atmosphere

https://www.esa.int/Science_Explora..._new_gas_signatures_in_the_martian_atmosphere

 

[Urwumpe]

Ozone is a pretty big surprise since its existence is generally considered a marker for possible oxygen producing chemical reactions - especially plant life.

But before we get too excited there: Did somebody start the reactor?

 

[Notebook]

ExoMars parachute testing moves forward

The parachute system that will help deliver the Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover to Mars has completed the first full-scale high altitude drop test with redesigned elements following two unsuccessful tests last year. Parachute extraction and deceleration proceeded as expected, the test vehicle...

www.esa.int

 

[MaxBuzz]

ESA announced the readiness of the rover for the Russian-European mission

 

[MaxBuzz]

rocket Proton-M is ready to launch (but due to the low adequacy of European countries, the launch is delayed)

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, the official ESA statement can maybe better summarized as:

We'll fight the powers that be just, don't pick our destiny 'cause you don't know us, you don't belong. We're not gonna take it. Oh no, we ain't gonna take it. We're not gonna take it anymore. Oh, you're so condescending, your gall is never ending. We don't want nothin', not a thing from you. Your life is trite and jaded, boring and confiscated. If that's your best, your best won't do.

ESA statement regarding cooperation with Russia following a meeting with Member States on 28 February 2022

 

[Sbb1413]

ESA suspends the second ExoMars mission (after the ExoMars TGO mission) over the current geopolitical situation. Please don't comment on this post unless the comment is apolitical enough.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...-mission-with-russia-101647526028630-amp.html

 

[N_Molson]

?

 

[MaxBuzz]

NPO Lavochkim demonstrated a replacement on the Martian station


it is also possible that a centaur robot will ride on mars (but it's more for entertainment purposes)

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1508494534828822533

 

[N_Molson]

The "potential investors" already have their very own Mars rover and they now have little to learn from Russia...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-1

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Zhurong's landing strategy is almost identical to the planned landing of Rosalind Franklin, so they might collaborate on either of the two space agencies since currently CNSA are OK with both ESA and Roscosmos

 

[MaxBuzz]

first art of the Martian centaur robot appeared on the official website of the Android Technology NPO

 

[MarkWatney2015]

It looks like the robot from Soyuz MS-14

 

[MaxBuzz]

frame from a boring video about scientific work