Russian experts will make for a European lander rover “EkzoMars.” If successful, Russia will become the second country that has the technology to deliver heavy robots on other planets.
In a joint project of the European Space Agency and Roscosmos, to Mars planned to send two missions. First, “EkzoMars 2016″, will take to orbit Mars orbiter to study the atmosphere and the distribution of water ice in the Martian soil, and landed on the surface of the planet demo descent module. The second mission – “EkzoMars 2018″ suggests a soft landing of the rover, equipped with Russian scientific instruments.
Note that apart from rocket launchers, Russia will provide Europeans and the lander for the Mars rover. This is an extremely complex development: currently only NASA has experience a soft landing wheeled robots on the Martian surface. Create such a device is not easy, because it must not only deliver the rover on the surface of the whole, but also pull it in exactly predetermined area, because slip in a few tens of kilometers can mean the failure of the scientific mission. If successful, Russia will be the second country, which at this engineering task forces. Until now, the rovers on Mars lowered U.S. only.
“EkzoMars” heavier than the first two American rovers, but easier Curiosity, so for his chosen landing “hybrid” scheme – the most reliable and efficient. The platform should smoothly lower the rover to a designated area, where he worked for settlement Martian year (about 1.8 years on Earth) or longer.
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