Latest News ExoMars mission to search for signs of life on the Red-Planet

A latest Mars probe is about to receive off on a mission to hunt down chemical signs of life in the Red Planet’s atmos-phere. On March 14, ExoMars is planned to depart from Kazakhstan for a seven-month journey to Mars, where it will use up several years orbiting the planet creation an inventory of all gases counting methane, a possible side-effect of life.

Next to with an orbiter, ExoMars will deliver a lander named Schiaparelli, which will check entry, descent and landing techniques for a rover intended to launch in 2018. The orbiter will act as a telecommunications relay for both this lander and the future traveler. Both missions are shared projects of the European & Russian space agencies.