ExoMars is a joint project of European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) with aim of searching for signs of past and present life on Mars and conducting ExoBiology research on the Red Planet.
ExoMars is set to land on the surface of Mars on 19th Oct 2016 (coming Wednesday) at 14:48 GMT (7:48pm PKT acc. to Google).
The mission’s ground control centre is in Darmstadt, Germany.
The Landing event will be live streamed here: http://www.esa.int/…/Live_updates_ExoMars_arrival_and_landi…
An informative publication can be downloaded from this link:http://exploration.esa.int/…/58417-media-kit-for-schiapare…/
ExoMars will use assistance of ESA’s another orbiter, namely, ESA Mars Express and NASA Orbiter (I forgot name). The communication software was also tested on NASA’s Curiosity rover, which generated similar signals to emulate ESA’s ExoMars.
Details: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activi…/…/A_little_help_from_friends/
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