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The impact of the european module Schiaparelli crash on Mars on 19 October he created a crater about 50 cm deep and 2.4 metres in diameter. The estimate made by the European Space Agency (ESA) from the photograph in high resolution the 25 of October he took the probe of the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) region of the Meridiani Planum.
on The 21st of October, two days after the landing failed the first phase of the mission ExoMars, the probe orbitadora american captured with your camera of low resolution, the area in which it would have been the impact of the module, Schiaparelli, whose objective was to test the technology needed for that, by 2020, the ESA’s send a robotic vehicle to explore traces of life. Once you have located the area of the landing (thanks to the comparison of photos taken of that region of mars before and after the same), NASA proceeded to photograph again the area with the high resolution camera that takes the probe MRO.
Tanks with hydrazine
researchers are trying to determine what are the different brands that you see in the pictures. The most outstanding part is a dark area of 15×40 feet, which is the that it is believed that suffered the impact. There is a central point of 2.4 meters in diameter, which, they believe, is the crater caused by the module to the crash.
Around there are other brands of dark and asymmetric, according to the THAT “are more difficult to interpret" and could be related to the explosion of the fuel tanks of the module (had hydrazine for the retrorockets) and that possibly were full.
In the photo you can see the parachute of 12 metres which should reduce the speed of the module during the descent, the rear of the heat shield and the front. In addition to estimating the size of the crater caused by the impact and the likely explosion of the module, of almost 600 kilos of weight, from these images the engineers calculated that the ship is precipitated at a speed of about 300 kilometers per hour.
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