{"id":19182,"date":"2016-11-03T21:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mars-orbital-image-shows-schiaparelli-landers-crash-site-in-inglorious-color\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T21:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:01:04","slug":"mars-orbital-image-shows-schiaparelli-landers-crash-site-in-inglorious-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mars-orbital-image-shows-schiaparelli-landers-crash-site-in-inglorious-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars orbital image shows Schiaparelli lander\u2019s crash site in inglorious color"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Schiaparelli
Blackened streaks and bright bits of debris can be seen in this image of the crash zone for the European Space Agency\u2019s Schiaparelli lander. (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ University of Arizona)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

High-resolution color images from NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the spot where the European Space Agency\u2019s Schiaparelli lander crashed \u2013 in black and white and red all over.<\/p>\n

The 8-foot-wide Schiaparelli spacecraft was deployed from ESA\u2019s Trace Gas Orbiter and descended to the Red Planet\u2019s surface on Oct. 19, but a glitch caused the descent to go awry in its final minutes.<\/p>\n

Rather than making a controlled landing with the aid of its parachute and thrusters, Schiaparelli slammed into the surface at more than 180 mph, leaving a pattern of black streaks and a scattering of light-colored debris.<\/p>\n

Those bits of debris show up particularly well in the latest pictures from MRO\u2019s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE. They may be pieces of insulation thrown out from the spacecraft when it hit the dirt.<\/p>\n

ESA said a fuzzy, light-colored patch could represent surface material that was disturbed by the impact, or by a subsequent explosion, or by the explosive decompression of the lander\u2019s fuel tanks.<\/p>\n

HiRISE captured the color imagery on Tuesday, and the pictures were released today by ESA and NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.<\/p>\n

\"Backshell
The HiRISE image on the left shows Schiaparelli\u2019s circular rear heatshield and parachute on the Martian surface on Oct. 25. The image on the right shows the same area in color on Nov. 1, with a shift in the shape of the parachute. (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ University of Arizona)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another image shows the lander\u2019s rear heatshield and parachute, which were jettisoned by the lander during descent and fell to the surface about a half-mile (0.9 kilometers) south of the main crash site. A comparison of pictures taken on Oct. 25 and Nov. 1 reveals shifts in the shape of what\u2019s thought to be the parachute.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most logical explanation is that it has been shifted in the wind, in this case slightly to the west. This phenomenon was also observed by MRO in images of the parachute used by NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover,\u201d ESA said.<\/p>\n

Further imagery will be acquired and sent back to Earth as part of the effort to figure out what exactly went wrong during Schiaparelli\u2019s descent.<\/p>\n

Although Schiaparelli didn\u2019t survive, the Trace Gas Orbiter successfully entered Martian orbit on the same day. The orbiter, part of ESA\u2019s multi-mission ExoMars campaign, is designed to analyze gases in the Red Planet\u2019s thin atmosphere. It\u2019s due to begin capturing images and making other science observations on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blackened streaks and bright bits of debris can be seen in this image of the crash zone for the European Space Agency\u2019s Schiaparelli lander. (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ University of Arizona) High-resolution color images from NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the spot where the European Space Agency\u2019s Schiaparelli lander crashed \u2013 in black and white and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[831,2297,367,1851,3304],"class_list":["post-19182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-european-space-agency","tag-exomars","tag-mars","tag-mars-reconnaissance-orbiter","tag-schiaparelli"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}