As Russia is looking for life on Mars – Dni.Ru

Mission Control Centre of the European Space Agency (ESA) has established communication with the first ever EU-Russia cooperation space station search for life on Mars ExoMars-2016. Now the mission took a straight course to the Red Planet, which is expected to arrive in October. Dni.Ru found out why Russia jointly with European scientists looking for life on Mars.

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carrier rocket “Proton-M” with the station ExoMars 2016 was launched from Baikonur on March 14 at 12:33 MSK, the separation of the spacecraft from the upper stage occurred at 23:13 MSK. According to calculations of ballistics, ExoMars 2016 arrive to Mars in mid-October. Three days prior to entry into the atmosphere of the planet’s descent module Schiaparelli samoizvlechetsya of the orbiter Orbiter, then will start to decline in the surface of the Red Planet to study its atmosphere and soil .

“ExoMars-2016 looking for substances that in very small amounts are found in the atmosphere, small gaseous impurities of the atmosphere at the mission has many goals, we’re also going to investigate the distribution of water ice in the soil of Mars But the most important innovation, which we are engaged, -.. is a global study the atmosphere “, – says analyst Michael Hahn mission of the European space agency ESA

The mission has two modules that solve different problems.. Landing Schiaparelli module will test landing techniques on Mars orbiter and Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will research the planet’s atmosphere. This TGO have to work on unraveling the main Martian mysteries – the presence of methane in the atmosphere Red Planet

The fact that methane is on Mars in trace amounts, and this amount over the past decade. It decreased by about ten times. Why is this happening – the modern science does not know. The martian conditions, methane must decompose a few hundred years, but the its source, as well as the very variability in the atmosphere – also a mystery . The answer to it with a laser spectrometer will try to find TGO.

Surprisingly, initially ExoMars mission was to be the American-European, but NASA at the last minute came out of the project, and Russia, we can say that mission saved . The Europeans did not have enough resources to implement it, but we never would have failed to do to implement this large-scale project. In the case of successful ExoMars will be continued in 2018, when the Red Planet is scheduled to deliver a full descent module and a rover. Through the implementation of the second phase of the mission in Russia and Europe for the first time will be able to drill the soil of Mars two meters in depth.

20:55 / 15.03.2016 ExoMars, Schiaparelli, TGO, space Mars, the Federal Space Agency

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