This is the first after a failed landing module high resolution images, made by HIRISE
NASA released new photos of the alleged site of the crash lander “Schiaparelli”, the resulting probe multifunctional automatic interplanetary station (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO). They are posted on the website HIRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is one of the three cameras MRO).
This is the first after a failed landing module high resolution images, made by HIRISE. According to preliminary data, they fixed the parachute and the wreckage of the heat shield “Schiaparelli” and traces of the explosion and the resulting fall of a small crater.
In addition, several visible dark spots, the origin of which scientists still unable to explain. According to the head working with the HiRISE research group of Alfred McEwan, the images indicate that the device is falling from a large (above 300 kilometers per hour) speed. Presumably, as a result of apparatus with the surface of Mars crater is 2.4 meters in diameter and about 1.5 meters deep.
The mission of the MRO are going to get new pictures of crash site “the list” to make sure that the photos are real objects and not defects in the images.
That lander “Schiaparelli” (Schiaparelli) Russian-European mission “ExoMars-2016” crashed while landing on Mars, the European space Agency (ESA) said on 21 October. It was also reported that he was falling quickly from a height of two to four kilometers and could explode when hitting the surface of the red planet.
Task “Schiaparelli” was the 19th of October to sit down on the Martian plateau of Meridian, however, the signal from the module is interrupted at the moment of descent. On the mission after landing, the machine had to start signal transmission from the surface, take and record it should have been Mars probes Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and orbital module TGO. In Russia planned to receive the signals TGO stations in Bear Lakes and oceans.
Russian-European mission “ExoMars-2016” Mar 14 was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome using rocket “proton-M”. “Schiaparelli” was intended for development of the technology of atmospheric entry, descent, and landing research.
