The Trace Gas Orbiter in a clean room before its launch in 2016. Credit: Thales Alenia Space/ESA For more than a year, a 3.5-tonne spacecraft has been circling Mars in a series of erratic loops.

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ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has been in orbit around Mars since October 19, 2016. It's packed with instruments meant to sample and analyze molecules in the Martian atmosphere with the goal of ...

The ESA/Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is mere weeks away from commencing its atmospheric search for evidence of recent geological activity, and possibly life on everyone’s favorite Red Planet.

Trace Gas Orbiter. Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter sends its first color picture of Mars – and it’s spectacular. The first color image to come from a camera aboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ...

Artist’s impression of the ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. ESA/ATG medialab. Carbon dioxide and ozone have been previously observed by instruments like Mars Express, ...

April 10 (UPI) --After a year of aerobraking, the Trace Gas Orbiter has finally reached a stable orbit around Mars and will soon commence with its science mission. The Trace Gas Orbiter is the ...

The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a joint endeavour between ESA and Roscosmos, made its first scientific calibration measurements during two orbits between 20 and 28 November.

The ESA has a spacecraft in orbit around Mars called the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Around the Red Planet, a phenomenon previously only seen around the Earth has been discovered by ExoMars.

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