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Schiaparelli preparing to land on Mars

October 18, 2016

ESA Mars probe Schiaparelli detaches from mothership for descent . The landing site and other details are given here . For live updates see here . The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex , part of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS), is supporting the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission and Schiaparelli landing using the Tidbinbilla 70-m dish DSS-43.

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