• research orbiter and the Schiaparelli demonstration lander to Mars in 2016 as part of the European-led ExoMars programme. The Trace Gas Orbiter delivered...
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  • launched in 2016 that placed the Trace Gas Orbiter into Mars orbit and released the Schiaparelli EDM lander. The orbiter is operational but the lander crashed...
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    methane levels on Mars. Methane could be produced by microorganisms or by geological means. The European ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter started mapping the...
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    Viking 2 In 1999, Mars Climate Orbiter accidentally entered Mars' atmosphere and either burnt up or left Mars' orbit on an unknown trajectory.[citation...
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    science orbiters are the MAVEN, which arrived at Mars on September 21, 2014 with an Electra transceiver; and the 2016 European ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, that...
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    probe on the recently launched ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter failed to find methane in the atmosphere over the whole of Mars, several previous missions and...
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    orbit, functional or not, Mars orbiters have been predicted to remain in orbit for a certain amount of time. Viking 1 orbiter, likely to be in orbit as...
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    Express. In 2017–2018, the ESA ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter performed aerobraking at Mars to reduce the apocentre of the orbit, being the first operational...
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    Reconnaissance Orbiter showing what appears to be the lander's crash site. The telemetry data accumulated and relayed by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Mars Express...
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  • Mars Odyssey (ODY), NASA, 2001 Mars Express (MEX), ESA, 2003 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), NASA, 2006 MAVEN (MVN), NASA, 2013 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter...
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