Questions tagged [exomars]
ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos to look for signs of life on Mars.
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Why was the ExoMars Rover to use such as complex parachute system?
American Mars landers use a single, supersonic main parachute. The European/ Russian ExoMars rover was to use a much more complex 4 parachute system consisting of a drogue, a main and a pilot for each ...
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Why not bring an extra rover with an ExoMars drill unit to Jezero to have a far better chance to get biosignatures for the sample return mission?
In an interview in the recent article Mars Has So Much Radiation, Any Signs of Life Would Be Buried Six Feet Under physicist Alexander Pavlov of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center tells that he and ...
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What is the current status of ESA/Roscosmos cooperation with regard to the ExoMars Orbiter?
The ExoMars is a cooperative project between ESA and Roscosmos. The second part of ExoMars, the Rosalind Franklin rover, is on hold as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However an earlier ...
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Fancy locomotion for rovers
For its upcoming ExoMars mission, ESA's rover "Rosalind Franklin" can use its wheels like legs in an insect-like gait, to walk out of deep sand that it can't drive out of.
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What Mars science research would be impeded by the presence of humans on Mars surface?
What Mars science research would be impeded by the presence of humans on Mars surface?
The NASA InSight Mars Lander had seismometers sensitive enough to pick up vibrations caused by dust devils in the ...
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For the three spacecraft now on their way to Mars plus ExoMars, how many have any solar power capability during transit?
Right now EMM Hope, Tiangwen-1 and Mars2020 are on their way to Mars and ExoMars will go next time.
For these four spacecraft how many of them have any provisions to use solar power via photovoltaic ...
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Is ESA's ExoMars TGA getting old and unable to support Rosalind Franklin rover for the full potential duration of its missions and extensions?
Wikipedia's ExoMars explains that the Trace Gas Orbiter or TGO part of the mission was launched in 2016 and the rover was originally scheduled to launch in 2018. This launch was delayed until 2020 and ...
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Source for details on Exomars parachute damage?
(diagram credit ESA)
With Ars Technica reporting today that a two-year launch delay is likely because of parachute problems, I went looking for details.
ESA press releases linked in the article are ...
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Have we looked in the right place for life on Mars?
I know it's (extremely) unlikely there is (& perhaps ever was) any life on Mars but having had a glance through the missions I can find I can't help thinking we've not really looked in the best ...
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Why will the next missions to Mars not search for past life where once deep-water hydrothermal vents were?
The iron-sulfur world theory and the deep sea vent hypothesis are among the most popular ones to explain the origin of life on Earth.
This article (Michalski J et al. Ancient hydrothermal seafloor ...
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Will the Rosalind Franklin (ExoMars) rover solar panels be able to clear themselves of dust by tilting?
The BBC News item 'Rosalind Franklin' Mars rover assembly completed contains a short video, and I show some screen shots below.
It looks like the panels unfold twice, from two stacks of three, to six ...
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China, UAE and US all sending missions to Mars in 2020 (Summer of L̶o̶v̶e Mars); how far apart are their frequencies?
Gizmodo's Second failure of ExoMars parachute test throws schedule in jeopardy says:
ExoMars 2020 is due to launch during a narrow window open between July 25th to August 13th 2020, during which ...
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Is it possible that Curiosity Rover measured its own methane or failed doing the spectrometry?
NASA published past June high methane concentrations were measured at Mars.
This week, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover found a surprising result: the largest amount of methane ever measured during the ...
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If the ESA has its own deep space network, why does it use NASA's?
The European Space Agency has its own network for communicating for spacecraft in deep space, ESTRACK. It has stations distributed around the globe:
Nonetheless, several ESA missions use NASA's Deep ...
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Is it justified that ESA is pushing to launch Rosalind Franklin even after Schiaparelli landing failed? [closed]
As far as I am aware, ESA has not achieved a successful martian landing yet. Why is it still a good idea to try with full-scale rover, weighting more than Opportunity and Spirit (though less than ...
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What launch vehicle will be used for Exomars rover Rosalind Franklin?
I know that for TGO/Schiaparelli, Proton was used, but I don't know what will be for Rosalind Franklin.
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Why the big difference between NASA and ESA/Roscosmos in evaluating the Oxia Planum landing site?
In november 2018 ESA announced that the Oxia Planum region is favoured for the ExoMars surface mission.
The figure above from this answer about the 21 potential landing sites for the Mars 2020 ...
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Is the ESA Roscosmos ExoMars Orbiter capable of detecting the NASA landers and rovers on the surface of Mars?
I know that ExoMars is controlled jointly by ESA and Roscosmos not by NASA.
Is this satellite (the Trace Gas Orbiter, placed in a near-circular 400 km altitude orbit, capable of detecting the American ...
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Why does ExoMars have more landing ellipse flexibility in 2020 than in 2018?
The BBC's ExoMars: Where to send Europe's robot rover? discusses the decision-making faced by the ExoMars Site Selection Working Group.
The working group will spend Thursday and Friday discussing ...
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How will the Exomars rover communicate back to Earth?
I see here that the Exomars rover has only two UHF monopole antennas.
Two UHF monopole antennas are used to communicate with Mars orbiters, including the Trace Gas Orbiter.
Does it mean that it ...
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Why does ExoMars need stereo ground-penetrating radar "eyes"?
In the BBC News article Europe's Mars rover takes shape there is a short video describing the Structural and Thermal Model (STM) of the ExoMars Rover.
After describing the drill box, the narrator in ...
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Will the ExoMars rover offer some unique science capability?
The BBC article Europe's science ministers to decide on ExoMars rover describes a substantial amount of discussion and soul-searching about the level of funding and capabilities for the rover part of ...
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Schiaparelli 2?
From what I know, space scientists always work on two prototypes just in case something goes wrong. Why wasn't this the case this time? and are there plans for a repeat of this mission soon?
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Insight on EDM Schiaparelli's IMU error and subsequent failed landing
Read this SpaceNews article which states,'1 second of Inertial Measurement error' caused the devastation in the Schiaparelli's landing sequence, causing it to free fall for 3.7 kms. What is exactly ...
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What are transonic oscillations (wrist mode) and would Schiaparelli have been transonic at 2 to 4 km altitude?
edit: Considering that the recent (23-Nov-2016) ESA update suggests that a saturation of the rotational sensors in the IMU may have set off a series of miscalculations leading to mission loss, the ...
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Was the time of Schiaparelli's landing chosen specifically so the Giant Meter Wave Radiotelescope could listen?
The ESA blog post Listening to an Alien Landing describes the plan to monitor a UHF beacon transmitted by Schiaparelli during it's upcoming descent and landing on Mars (2016-10-19 about 14:45 UT). The ...
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Could Schiaparelli's retroreflector array (still) be used?
update 2: It appears Schiaparelli has already been located by satellite. This still represents the first laser ranging retroreflector array deployed beyond the Earth-Moon system! So assuming it is now ...
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Will Exo Mars serve as a relay for non ESA/Roscosmos missions?
I know that Exo Mars TGO is intended to be a relay for Exo Mars Schiaparelli and Exo Mars Rover.
However the orbiter could also serve as a relay for other missions.
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Is this a first Mars aerobraking for ESA, or for anyone?
In the ESA video ExoMars at the Red Planet after about 02:10, it says:
With ExoMars, ESA is going to use for the first time, a method called aerobraking for a spacecraft in orbit around Mars...
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Current maximum bandwidth between Mars and Earth?
What is the current maximum bandwidth between Mars and Earth (at their closest), accounting for any satellite/prober/orbiter that is either at Mars or already launched and en route?
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Curiosity is still dirty! How will the ExoMARS Rover keep its solar panels dust-free and collecting sufficient power?
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Current events makes this question even more poignant
sols 5183 to 5189, Aug. 23, 2018 - Aug. 29, 2018: Team Continues to Listen for Opportunity
Curiosity selfie has been released just a few ...
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