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ExoMars discovers new gas and traces water loss...
Sea salt embedded in the dusty surface of Mars and lofted into the planet’s atmosphere has led to the discovery of hydrogen chloride. This is the first time Exomars TGO has...
News SciencesFebruary 10, 2021 -
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...
News SciencesNovember 18, 2020 -
The way forward to Mars
The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars in 264 days foresees a touchdown on the...
News SciencesOctober 1, 2020 -
From Turin to Cannes, and from Baikonur all the...
While the ExoMars program may seem like science fiction to some of you, it’s about to head for the planet Mars on its second mission. The entire spacecraft, comprising the carrier...
News SciencesSeptember 29, 2020 -
ExoMars finds new gas signatures in the martian...
These unlock new secrets about the martian atmosphere, and will enable a more accurate determination of whether there is methane, a gas associated with biological or geological...
News SciencesJuly 27, 2020 -
ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere – the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth.
News SciencesJune 16, 2020 -
ExoMars rover upgrades and parachute tests
The second ExoMars mission, scheduled for launch to the Red Planet in 2022, is taking advantage of the extra time to upgrade some of the rover’s instruments and get ready for the...
News SciencesMay 15, 2020 -
ESA scales down science mission operations amid...
In response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic, ESA has decided to further reduce on-site personnel at its mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
News SciencesMarch 24, 2020 -
ExoMars 2020 is postponed to 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022.
News SciencesMarch 13, 2020 -
ExoMars Rover completes environmental tests
The Rosalind Franklin rover of the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars mission completed a series of environmental tests at the end of 2019 at Airbus, Toulouse, France. This included...
News SciencesFebruary 3, 2020 -
ESA's Mars orbiters did not see latest...
The highest burst of methane recorded yet by Curiosity in June, neither recorded by Mars Express nor the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
News SciencesNovember 13, 2019 -
ExoMars parachute progress
After the problems discovered this summer with ExoMars parachutes, progress allows to maintain the July-August 2020 lauch window.
News SciencesOctober 23, 2019 -
Inauguration of the ExoMars 2020 Rover Operations...
The ExoMars 2020 Rover Operations Control Center (ROCC) was inaugurated on may 30 by Thales Alenia Space, ALTEC, the Italian space agency ASI and the European Space Agency (ESA).
News SciencesJune 11, 2019 -
Oxia Planum is recommanded as landing site for...
The proposal will be reviewed internally by ESA and Roscosmos with an official confirmation expected mid-2019.
News SciencesNovember 23, 2018 -
First test success for largest mars mission...
The largest parachute ever to fly on a Mars mission has been deployed in the first of a series of tests to prepare for the upcoming ExoMars mission that will deliver a rover and a...
News SciencesMay 23, 2018 -
ExoMars: Schiaparelli spotted by MRO
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified markings probably left by the impact of the Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module on the...
News SciencesOctober 25, 2016 -
ExoMars 2016: TGO enters Martian orbit
The ExoMars 2016 mission’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was successfully captured into Martian orbit Wednesday 19 October. However, the landing of Schiaparelli had still not been...
News SciencesOctober 19, 2016 -
Press Release: CNES’s Science Programmes...
CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met on Wednesday 21 September at the agency’s Head Office in Paris Les Halles. The committee’s chief purpose is to advise the CNES Board...
News SciencesSeptember 22, 2016
