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The European Space Agency's ExoMars lander is set to touch down on the Red Planet tomorrow. Here's what to expect.
After seven months of space travel, the European Schiaparelli spacecraft is only a couple days away from making its final decent to the surface of the Red Planet — and the stakes are high.
A European spacecraft destined to land on Mars detached from its mothership on Sunday (Oct. 16), setting the stage for a daring descent to the Red Planet's surface later this week.
The European-led ExoMars mission is scheduled to drop a probe onto the surface of the Red Planet, and you can watch live mission updates on Oct. 16, Oct. 19 and Oct. 20.
The Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli lander are on their final approach to Mars, kicking off the first half of Europe's life-hunting ExoMars mission.
ExoMars fired up its main engine for nearly an hour on July 28, fine-tuning the probe's trajectory ahead of a planned Oct. 19 arrival at the Red Planet, ESA officials said.
