The probe separated from the main component, on the 16th of October, starting the descent toward the Red Planet, where you must land this Wednesday, on the back of 15h48 (Uk time).
One of the challenges faced by Schiaparelli is precisely the “land” are safe and sound and continue to work to make the rest of the work to which it is intended: to perform some measurements on temperature, pressure, and wind.
time will not be much: according to the ESA the module batteries may last between two to eight days, in the best forecasts. When the power runs out, Schiaparelli "off" and your mission will be fulfilled.
THE ESA explains in a six-minute video of the descent module Schiaparelli to Mars.
The probe TGO and your module Schiaparelli is part of ExoMars, a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Agency of russia (Roscosmos), and left in march to discover more secrets of Mars, with Portuguese technology on-board. The launch was conducted by the rocket, the Russian Proton-M, which sailed from Baïkonur in Kazakhstan.
One of the goals of ExoMars is to see the evolution of the red planet, and the probe TGO will try to detect traces of gases that could indicate the presence of life on the planet, but to 2020 and is planned a new mission with a rover on the surface, able to perform perforations in the soil.
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