The probe european Schiaparelli will try to land on Mars, this Wednesday afternoon, after three days of descent to the Red Planet.
After a journey of seven months to reach Mars, the Schiaparelli became separated on Sunday in the science probe that transported it, the TGO is at the end of the descent to land on the Red Planet.
Both with components “made in Portugal”, the TGO and Schiaparelli, named in honor of the Italian astronomer of the NINETEENTH century, traveled almost 500 million kilometres since its launch in march by a rocket, the Russian Proton-M from Baïkonur in Kazakhstan.
Landing on Mars is a technological challenge for Europe, which wants to prove that he mastered this difficult exercise.
Until now, only the United States managed to land on the red planet the mills to work.
this is the second time that Europe tries to land in the martian soil, after 13 years ago to probe the european Mars Express have released a mini-probe Beagle 2, which never gave sign of life. Only in 2015 is that the images of a probe of the north-american allowed to see that the Beagle 2 had actually landed, but that his solar panels were not all information.
The great flight of Schiaparelli is the first stage of ExoMars, an ambitious mission is the european scientific and Russian in two parts, which aims to search for evidence of life present and past on Mars.
The probe TGO will be in charge of “sniffing” the martian atmosphere to detect traces of gases such as methane, which may indicate the presence of a form of life present on the planet. Will start working in early 2018.
In 2020, the Europe and Russia shall send to Mars is a big “rover” that will benefit from the technological developments of the Schiaparelli and perform perforations on the ground to try to find traces of the vine were bacterial passed.
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