Questions tagged [trace-gas-orbiter]
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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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Could the NOMAD instrument on the TGO detect methane at night with sufficient reflected sunlight or artificial light?
Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD) is a 3-channel spectrometer on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).
Both the solar occultation (SO), and the limb nadir and occultation (LNO) ...
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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 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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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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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?
So far I've found ...
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Magnetic Memory to Mars?
There seems to be (perhaps these?) a probe headed to Mars that has incorporated Magnetic Memory (MRAM) as an integral part of the mission.
Is this a PR gimmick, or is MRAM actually the best technology ...
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