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ESA Mars exploration

ESA Mars exploration is explored here through 2 archived missions, from Mars Express through ExoMars Trace Gas , with the program’s spacecraft, people, milestones, and source-backed history connected along the way.

Missions: 2
People: 0
Vehicles: 2

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ESA Mars exploration science and payloads

The instruments, experiments, destinations, and scientific purpose connected to each robotic mission.

Mars surface, subsurface, atmosphere, and moons orbiterMars ExpressHighly elliptical near-polar Mars orbit

HRSC and OMEGA: Stereo imaging and visible-infrared mineral mapping of the surface
MARSIS: Long-wavelength radar sounding of the crust and polar subsurface
SPICAM, PFS, and ASPERA-3: Atmospheric composition, circulation, and solar-wind escape

Open science record →Mars atmospheric chemistry, surface mapping, and relay orbiterExoMars Trace Gas OrbiterApproximately 400-kilometer near-circular Mars orbit

NOMAD: Solar-occultation and nadir spectrometers for trace gases, dust, aerosols, and atmospheric structure
Atmospheric Chemistry Suite: Three infrared channels for sensitive inventories of Martian gases and isotopes
CaSSIS: Color and stereo surface imaging to connect gas sources with geology and seasonal change

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