Off to sniff out life on Mars

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3064, 2016, págs. 10-11
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • On Mar 14, Europe's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will blast off from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Proton rocket. Its mission: to understand the Red Planet's atmosphere and search for signs of biological and geological activity. If all goes to plan, the craft will arrive on Oct 19. Its small lander, named Schiaparelli, will then touch down on the surface, giving the European Space Agency and Russia's Roscosmos much-needed landing practice for a future ExoMars rover, due to launch in 2018