{"id":31300,"date":"2016-10-21T14:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T21:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/esas-mars-lander-may-have-exploded-on-impact"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:07:58","slug":"esas-mars-lander-may-have-exploded-on-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/esas-mars-lander-may-have-exploded-on-impact","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s Mars Lander May Have Exploded On Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/esas-mars-lander-may-have-exploded-on-impact.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Mars Test Lander likely exploded on impact after dropping from a height of four kilometers after its retrorockets prematurely switched off. Just another lesson in how difficult these missions actually are; a cautionary tale for new space entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New NASA images of the Martian surface indicate that the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Schiaparelli ExoMars 2016 test lander likely crashed from a height of at least two to four kilometers as it made its way through the Red planet\u2019s thin atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Surface markings imaged by NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and released via NASA JPL, identifies new markings believed to be related to ESA\u2019s Schiaparelli Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), which arrived at Mars on Oct. 19th. Schiaparelli may have exploded on impact after impacting at speeds greater than 300 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) released the lander for what was to have been a six minute descent to the touchdown site at Meridiani Planum, a plain near Mars\u2019 equator.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/10\/21\/esas-mars-lander-may-have-exploded-on-impact\/#706610902875\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/10\/21\/esas-ma...6610902875<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Mars Test Lander likely exploded on impact after dropping from a height of four kilometers after its retrorockets prematurely switched off. Just another lesson in how difficult these missions actually are; a cautionary tale for new space entrepreneurs. New NASA images of the Martian surface indicate that the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Schiaparelli ExoMars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65946,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions\/65946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}