ESA | Human and Robotic Exploration | ExoMars | TGO | 2019 Apr 10
New evidence of the impact of the recent planet-encompassing dust storm on water in the atmosphere, and a surprising lack of methane, are among the scientific highlights of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter’s first year in orbit.
Two papers are published in the journal Nature today describing the new results, and reported in a dedicated press briefing at the European Geosciences Union in Vienna.
A third paper, submitted to the Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Science, presents the most detailed map ever produced of water-ice or hydrated minerals in the shallow subsurface of Mars.
The joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, arrived at the Red Planet in October 2016, and spent more than one year using the aerobraking technique needed to reach its two-hour science orbit, 400 km above the surface of Mars. ...
British Instruments Reveal Secrets of Martian Sky
UK Space Agency | 2019 Apr 10
No detection of methane on Mars from early
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observations ~ ACS and NOMAD Science Teams: Oleg Korablev et al
- Nature (online 10 Apr 2019) DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1096-4
Martian dust storm impact on atmospheric H2O and D/H
observed by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ~ ACS Science Team: Ann Carine Vandaele et al
- Nature (online 10 Apr 2019) DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1097-3