...problems and interactions (see Figure 7). The facility is aligned with ESA’s robotic exploration programme requirements for missions including Mars Sample Return. A critical aspect of its work involves the simulation and validation of plume-structure...
... Trace Gas Orbiter and its entry, descent and landing demonstrator module (Schiaparelli) is on track for its mission to Mars. “At this moment we are at the beginning of a long and exciting sequence of events today. Sending a satellite into Earth...
... in the coming days. At a ceremony in Beijing today, Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China's first Mars exploration mission unveiled four new images of Mars that include the landing site panorama, the martian landscape and a selfie of the rover...
... successful: We’ve learned a lot that will benefit future missions to Mars and elsewhere, and we thank our German partners from ...The mole’s design was based on soil seen by previous Mars missions – soil that proved very different from what the mole ...
...50C and +50C. As a simulation test-bed for preparing human missions to Mars and to the Moon, SHEE is self-sufficient for a two... for two weeks, as they would in a nominal short mission space scenario. SHEE is thus the first European space habitat ...
...reactions to confinement over periods of 14, 105 and 510 days, designed to replicate the conditions of a mission to Mars. Although findings from the Mars simulations are less conclusive with regards to changes in mood and the TQP (Basner et al., 2014...