Like Earth, Mars is surrounded by an ionosphere—the part of its upper atmosphere where radiation from the sun knocks ...

The ESA/Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is mere weeks away from commencing its atmospheric search for evidence of recent geological activity, and possibly life on everyone’s favorite Red Planet.

Every year the robots and satellites scientists have sent to Mars make discoveries that help us learn more about the Red ...

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has made a map of the distribution of watery minerals in the Martian surface, studied how the global dust storm affected the atmosphere, and intriguingly found ...

Another of ESA’s Mars explorers, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), has previously imaged the spiders’ tendril-like patterns especially clearly in 2020 in a nearby region. While the Mars ...

While the Trace Gas Orbiter has so far failed to find methane, that does not mean Mars Express and the Curiosity rover were wrong. [ Sign up to get reminders for space and astronomy events on your ...

Artist’s impression of the ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. ESA/ATG medialab. Carbon dioxide and ozone have been previously observed by instruments like Mars Express, ...

The Trace Gas Orbiter is part of a European-led scientific campaign that also includes a Mars rover and a surface science platform, due for launch in 2020.

The European Space Agency’s fancy new Mars orbiter only arrived at the Red Planet a few weeks ago, but it’s already delivering some really fantastic … ...

The Trace Gas Orbiter, currently locked in an elliptical orbit around the red planet, has begun carrying out preliminary scientific observations of Mars and its moon Phobos. News.

Trace Gas Orbiter finds a canyon on Mars ‘packed full’ of water ice ... a gas giant located over 600 light-years away that orbits its star so closely that a year there lasts just 2.8 days.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which is a project from the European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos, recently detected a gas that it never found before. Hydrogen chloride, ...