Diagram of the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli ... systems have been brought on line and the 2.2-m (87-in) high-gain radio antenna was deployed to provide a two Mbit/s link with Earth.

The antenna sent parallel transmissions to the agency’s Mars Express orbiter, which snaps pictures of the Red Planet, and its ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which analyzes gas signatures on Mars.

CaSSIS – the camera on the freshly arrived ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter – beamed back its first high resolution images of the planet on November 22. The orbiter repeats a pattern of getting close ...

ExoMars might have lost the Schiaparelli lander, but the mission is far from being a failure: its Trace Gas Orbiter probe is working just fine.The probe spent two orbits, from November 20th to the ...

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter launched from Kazakhstan. Its mission is to seek evidence of methane and other atmospheric gases that could mean there’s active biological life on Mars. The flight ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which launched in 2016, just sent back some spectacular images of the Martian surface. The orbiter is equipped to take images of the ...

This image of the young volcanic region of Elysium Planitia on Mars [10.3°N, 159.5°E] was taken on 14 April 2021 by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).

The Trace Gas Orbiter (or TGO for short) is currently orbiting the planet at an altitude of just 250 miles, which means it has a great view of the planet’s surface, and it’s just delivered its ...

The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), external will study the planet's atmosphere, and drop a demonstration lander on to the surface to gain knowhow for a rover mission touchdown in 2019. Engineers at ...