The NASA ship found robots landing on Mars

The NASA spacecraft orbits Mars orbit to detect the location of the Schiaparelli amphibious robot after opening it too early and crashing into the planet's surface.

The image sent to Earth yesterday by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of the US Space Agency (NASA) helps the control team confirm the Schiaparelli probe robot to crash into Mars and may have exploded later. Strong impact, according to Live Science.

Photograph where the Schiaparelli robot crashed into the surface of Mars. (Photo: NASA).

The Schiaparelli amphibious robot of the European Space Agency (ESA) stopped transmitting signals to the Earth about a minute before the scheduled landing time on October 19. ESA experts identified Schiaparelli's parachute too early, causing the rocket to decelerate before the deadline but not long enough before the device landed.

The photos show a light-colored object that could be a 12m-diameter parachute of a robot along with a dark space of 40 m, 15m wide, which is likely where the robot hits the ground.

"As we estimate, Schiaparelli falls from a height of 2 to 4 km, so the collision occurs at speeds above 300 km / h. The relatively large size of the dark area is due to the impacted surface. If the robot explodes because the fuel tank is still full, these preliminary estimates will be screened after our deeper analysis , " the ESA leader said.

Schiaparelli robot can explode after a collision. (Photo: PA).

ExoMars experts say the fuel tank is still full because the data transmitted from Schiaparelli indicates that the robot does not operate the propulsion to slow down the speed for long enough. MRO took pictures with CTX camera with a low resolution. According to ESA, the MRO will record the area image of the collision with the clearer High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera next week.

The dark space lies 5.4 km west of Schiaparelli's intended landing area, located in the Meridiani Planum plateau in the southern equator of Mars.

Along with the orbiting vessel, Schiaparelli is in the early stages of the ExoMars program, jointly implemented by ESA, with the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, in order to bring the probe to look for signs of life on Mars. in 2020.