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ESA ExoMars program: The next step in exploring Mars

Witasse, O.; Svedhem, H.; McCoy, D. +6 more

The ExoMars program is an ESA-Roscosmos cooperation with some NASA contributions. ExoMars consists of two missions, one in 2016 and one in 2018. The 2016 mission includes an orbiting satellite dedicated to the study of atmospheric trace gases to acquire information on possible on-going geological or biological processes, and a European entry, desc…

ACS experiment for atmospheric studies on "ExoMars-2016" Orbiter

Montmessin, F.; Fedorova, A. A.; Shakun, A. V. +6 more

ACS is a set of spectrometers for atmospheric studies (Atmospheric Chemistry Suite). It is one of the Russian instruments for the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) of the Russian-European "ExoMars" program. The purpose of the experiment is to study the Martian atmosphere by means of two observations regimes: sensitive trace gases measurements in solar occul…