The #Mars Relay Network (#MRN) is an international constellation of spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet 🔴 that send #science data from surface rovers back to Earth

#MarsOdyssey ~ 170.4 Mb/day
#MRO ~ 447.5 Mb/day
#ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ~ 1,562.7 Mb/day
#MarsExpress - #ESA backup orbiter
https://science.nasa.gov/mars/mars-relay-network/

2021, ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft carried out experimental #communication 📶 tests with the Chinese (#CNSA) #Zhurong Mars rover https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/A_one-way_phone_call_at_Mars

#SpaceCommunication

Mars Relay Network

The Mars Relay Network is an international constellation of five spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet that send precious science data from surface rovers back to Earth.

NASA Science

Active #Mars 🔴 missions

#Perseverance 🇺🇸 🛞
#Curiosity 🇺🇸 🛞

#Zhurong 🇨🇳 🛞🪫*

#MarsOdyssey 🇺🇸 🛰️ 📶
#Tianwen1 🇨🇳 🛰️ 📶
#Hope 🇦🇪 🛰️ 📶
#ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter 🇪🇺🇷🇺 🛰️ 📶
#MRO Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 🇺🇸 🛰️ 📶
#MarsExpress 🇪🇺 🛰️ 📶
#ESCAPADE 🇺🇸 🛰️ 📶

#MAVEN 🇺🇸 🛰️ 🔇 **

*🪫likely too much dust on its solar panels to generate power
** 🔇likely unrecoverable but not yet declared inactive

Active, past, future missions : https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/every-mars-mission

Picture CC BY-NC 3.0 https://www.planetary.org/space-images/the-mars-exploration-family-portrait

🔴 Le modèle structurel de la nouvelle plateforme d'atterrissage d' #Exomars 2028 (en remplacement de la plateforme russe), le module d'entrée, de descente et d'atterrissage (EDLM) et le module de transfert entre la Terre et Mars, sont prêts pour les essais de vibrations et acoustiques où ils subiront une simulation de lancement, puis des essais de choc et de séparation lanceur et des essais structurels mécaniques.
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Sensitive and sturdy

Sensitive and sturdy

❓ Réponse de l'image mystère : Soigneusement emballé dans ce sac en forme de beignet se trouve le parachute de 35 m de diamètre de la mission #Exomars de l'ESA (📷) avant son passage dans un four (36 heures à 125°C, préchauffage 50 heures) pour une stérilisation pour la protection planètaire
ExoMars parachute high-altitude drop test

YouTube

#ExoMars descent module drop test. A system installed in all four legs detects when the spacecraft approaches the surface and triggers the shutdown of the descent engines after a soft landing https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/01/Legs_made_for_a_Mars_landing

On 7 July 2025 a high-altitude balloon carried a test capsule to an altitude of 29 kilometers to test the #parachute 🪂 under near-space conditions https://sscspace.com/news/esa-testing-martian-parachutes-from-the-edge-of-space/

#ESA #Mars

ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Parachute Baked Sterile at ESTEC Ahead of 2028 Mars Mission
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=exomars-rosalind-franklin-parachute-baked-sterile-at-estec-ahead-of-2028-mars-mission
Key insight: <p>Berlin
#parachute #rosalind #franklin #exomars
ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Parachute Baked Sterile at ESTEC Ahead of 2028 Mars Mission

Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 01, 2026 A 35-metre diameter parachute destined to slow the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover during its descent through the Martian atmosphere has undergone heat sterilisati...

The #Rosalind rover has a 2-meter 📏 drill to collect deeper samples than any previous #Mars 🔴 mission, ground-penetrating radar to see up to 3 meters and a neutron spectrometer to locate promising underground water-rich 💧 deposits https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/exomars-rover

#ESA #ExoMars

ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover

The European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover will search for signs of life on Mars.

The Planetary Society

Curiosity aplica por 1ª vez termoquimólisis con TMAH en Marte y detecta orgánicos antes invisibles (benzotiofeno y moléculas con N). Podrían tener origen abiótico: no es prueba de vida. https://aidoo.news/noticia/xZypn4

#NASA #Astrobiologia #ExploracionEspacial #Ciencia #ExoMars

Hemos encontrado moléculas relacionadas con la vida en Marte, pero no saquemos el champán todavía

El rover Curiosity realizó en Marte un experimento de termoquimólisis con TMAH, un reactivo que fragmenta moléculas grandes y permite detectar compuestos orgáni

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