Instruments selected for Mars

ESA PR-17 2010 ESA and NASA have selected the scientific instruments for their first joint Mars mission. Scheduled for 2016, it will study the chemical makeup of the martian atmosphere, including methane. Discovered in 2003, methane could point to life on the Red Planet.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM6XEZNZBG_index_0.html

Time: 2. Aug. 2010

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Topics: instruments, mars, selected