European lander "Schiaparelli", delivered to the orbital module Trace Gas Orbiter with Russian scientific stuffing, in the last moments of the landing to stop sending data, according to a tweet of the European Space Agency
"Schiaparelli" successfully entered the atmosphere, a parachute opened and dropped heat shield. However, after the cut-off parachute findings were not too optimistic. However, the agency is not clearly said whether it turned the "Schiaparelli" sit on Mars or not. To start the agency must further process the data. The device had to sit down on Mars on October 19 at Meridiani Planum.
The machine had to work on Mars from two to eight Martian days, which is 40 minutes longer than Earth. On it could put a Russian nuclear power plant, which would extend the life of up to two years, but the European Agency could not agree on its exports to "Roskosmos".
However, TGO and "Schiaparelli" interplanetary spacecraft called "exomars-2016." In space it launched March 14, 2016, "Roskosmos" and ESA. In 2020, Mars will send a full landing platform with the rover. "Schiaparelli" also has to work all the technologies that are needed for a full study of Mars.
