the Descent module “Schiaparelli” crashed while landing on Mars. This fact is proved with the help of a picture taken by American satellites with the MRO Mars orbit.
According to the ESA, the probe fell to the surface of Mars from a height of two to four kilometers and crashed. To obtain images of scientists, there was hope that the probe survived.
the Probe “Schiaparelli” was supposed to go to Mars on October 19, but his landing did not go according to plan. It was reported that the probe was too early shot off reserve, and also not long enough used brake motors.
Approximately 50 seconds before the time when the probe was supposed to touch the surface, he had ceased to transmit a signal. Some scientists immediately interpreted this as a sign that the probe has crashed.
ESA has so far not recognized the landing failed.
Unit weight of 600 kg, made mainly in Italy, in the case of a successful landing had to do meteorological research. Its battery is enough for four days of work.
the European scientists take a greater interest in the work of the TGO Orbiter, which has orbited Mars nearly simultaneously with the failed landing of “Schiaparelli”.
a Joint Russian-European expedition “ExoMars-2016″ was launched in March 2016. The upper stage of the Russian carrier rocket “proton-M” was sent in March to the Red planet module-companion “TGO” (Trace Gas Orbiter) and landing unit “Schiaparelli”, intended for working off of technologies of soft landing.
16 October there was a successful division, and on October 19 “TGO” was captured by the gravity of Mars and went on a highly elliptical orbit. The satellite instruments, two of which were made by the Russian side started to work and began to transfer the first information about the atmosphere and surface of Mars.
About a year the satellite will need to go into a circular orbit at an altitude of 400 kilometers above the planet’s surface. The lander couldn’t make the planned “soft landing”, but when approaching the surface managed to transmit the information today decode scientists.
Mars – “die hard”
our neighbour in space — a long, full of dramatic events history. “Accidents have very many missions, frequent breakdowns of equipment, so information about Mars from the devices is very valuable and gives us an idea about the features of the development of the planet. Lot of work was done in close cooperation with the European space Agency. In the complex political environment, the scientists intend to continue their joint research,” said President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Vladimir E. Fortov.
Not without an extraordinary situation and this time the lander “Schiaparelli”, which received a resounding name in honor of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli first observed the Martian “channels”, crashed while approaching the planet, not having planned soft landing.
About the dramatic theory of Mars exploration told the academician the lion Green, the Director of IKI RAS and the scientific head of the mission: “Why do we study Mars? All planets are equal and interesting, but Mars is “more equal” and all the more interesting. There are mystery and intrigue,” he joked Lev. Seriously, we are in the second stage of the study of Mars and its habitability, said the scientist. In the first stage we were looking for water, and in the future we will find life on Mars or signs of it.
Water and methane — a sign of life?
“Eczemas” is designed to solve several scientific problems including the study of the atmosphere and search for methane sources, a detailed mapping of the prevalence of water on the planet, the climate and the radiation environment on Mars. For this to ICA was developed the instrument: ACS for the study of trace gases in the atmosphere and the neutron telescope FRIEND to search for water. In addition, the researchers plan to create an integrated ESA system for receiving scientific information and use this for Russian antenna in Kalyazin and Bear lake.
“When our devices will go into a circular orbit of Mars, there will be a one-year period mapping and we hope to obtain high resolution images of 40 kilometers, increasing its order of magnitude compared with the previous,” said head researcher of the experiment, the FRIEND Igor Mitrofanov. Scientists are going to present to the public the main results: build detailed maps of the abundance of water, to carry out observations of the seasonal cycles of deposition of CO2 (on Mars carbon dioxide snow) and to study the change of borders winter cover on the planet, and also to measure the background radiation on its surface.
“These objectives are of great importance not only for science but also for the future development of Mars. Based on these data, we are examining suitable locations for planting is not only automatic, but manned vehicles. It is possible that we find “oases” on Mars, where at high water content there are sources of methane, then this is a very interesting place for future astrobiological studies,”– said Mitrofanov.
conclusions
“At least a few steps mission 2016 have already overcome is to escape orbit, implemented with high accuracy with the help of our booster, standard office modules. But I consider this mission in anticipation of a more technically difficult run in 2020, when the Red planet will land, the Rover has a drill rig”,– commented on the events Sergey Lemeshevsky, acting Director General of NPO imeni S. A. Lavochkina.
the Martian expedition complex infrastructure, said Igor Komarov, the head of “Roscosmos”, but it is very important for future research, especially since the mission of 2020 is already in the implementation phase, and the Russian side conducts monthly videoconferences with the colleagues from ESA to discuss the details of the future of flight.
“the work Done is not very frequent in recent times an example of when science and industry work together on one goal,” said Fort, who stressed that the scientific part of the project “ExoMars” was coined in wounds and practically realized in the system.
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