17 June 2016
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter Sends Back First Mars Image
...past and present. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the stationary lander Schiaparelli are expected to arrive on...expected to finally arrive on Mars on the same day. The TGO camera will be used to study geological features, including those that ...
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
...he adds. Similarly, observing ozone in the range where TGO hunts for methane is another wholly unanticipated result. Scientists ...by the sensitive Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) instrument on TGO, shows that it is now also possible to map martian...
15 December 2021
ExoMars discovers large amounts of hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon
... via Twitter. This water-rich region was found by the TGO’s FREND instrument. FREND, which stands for Fine Resolution Epithermal ...to help reveal deposits of water-ice near the surface. “With TGO we can look down to one metre below this dusty layer and...
15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
...the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a team of European astronomers have now spotted ...the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD) suite of instruments on TGO, that has the capability to detect light in the 200–650 nm...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... the globe, including ESA’s deep-space ground tracking stations and its ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). However a few others had prime viewing positions in which to watch and monitor the events as they unfolded...
19 October 2016
Success for TGO orbit insertion and its looking good for Schiaparelli too
... as humidity, temperature, dust opacity, pressure, wind speed, and wind direction. Meanwhile, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), if confirmed to be in the right orbit, will now complete a year of complex aerobraking manoeuvres to circularise its orbit and...
