Schiaperelli Lander and EXO-Mars news.

[Drone]

@qubit lol I like it old-style, sometimes I even write on the walls or window panes

There are so many failed Mars landings, especially Mars 2 (thankfully Mars 3,4,5 managed to make it) and Beagle 2

and now this ..

 

[Drone]

Further Clues to Fate of Mars Lander, Seen From Orbit

This Oct. 25, 2016, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the area where the Europe's Schiaparelli test lander struck Mars, with magnified insets of three sites where spacecraft components hit the ground. It adds detail not seen in earlier imaging of the site.

 

[Drone]

Interesting ExoMars video (about the project)

 

[Drone]

Schiaparelli Impact Site on Mars, in Color

 

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Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed last month after a sensor failure caused it to cast away its parachute and turn off braking thrusters more than two miles (3.7 km) above the surface of the planet, as if it had already landed, a new report has revealed.

The error stemmed from a momentary glitch in a device that measured how fast the spacecraft was spinning, the report by the European Space Agency said.

The spacecraft activated its ground systems, even though it was still about 2.3 miles off the surface, the ESA said.


'When merged into the navigation system, the erroneous information generated an estimated altitude that was negative - that is, below ground level,' ESA said.

'This in turn successively triggered a premature release of the parachute ... and a brief firing of the braking thrusters.'

About 0.9 km to the south, the parachute and rear heatshield have also now been imaged in colour. In the time that has elapsed since the last image was taken on 25 October, the outline of the parachute has changed.

The most logical explanation is that it has been shifted in the wind, in this case slightly to the west.

This phenomenon was also observed by MRO in images of the parachute used by NASA's Curiosity rover.

A final report on the crash is likely to be completed next month.

 

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ESA’s new ExoMars orbiter has tested its suite of instruments in orbit for the first time

EDIT

i modified the thread title

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Somewhere I ve read that the lander failed because of a sensor. Bare with me for this one: he/she took the good sensor home. ) but seriously..…. .

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Somewhere I ve read that the lander failed because of a sensor

that "somewhere" might have been post #30

 

[dont whant to set it"']

It was also in a local newspaper.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Such a waste of time and resources and $$ when they crash.

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Such a waste of time and resources and $$ when they crash.

Sure if you factor politics, by that logic it is quite pisible apple sabotauged sammungs batterys for some devices.

 

[slozomby]

don't think of this as a crash/failure, think of it as a successful bombing run.

 

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The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme will deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. A Proton rocket will be used to launch the mission, which will arrive to Mars after a nine-month journey. The ExoMars rover will travel across the Martian surface to search for signs of life. It will collect samples with a drill and analyse them with next-generation instruments. ExoMars will be the first mission to combine the capability to move across the surface and to study Mars at depth.

http://exploration.esa.int/mars/48088-mission-overview/