Likely Schiaparelli crash site spotted by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210164
BBC : NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken a picture of the area where the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli probe is believed to have crash-landed on Mars. Schiaparelli ceased communications during its descent, and data from before contact was lost suggest that the probe’s landing systems did not operate properly. In the MRO imagery, a dark patch roughly 15 m × 40 m is visible about 5.5 km west of the probe’s planned landing site; previous images show no such mark. The dark patch is likely debris thrown up by the impact. Additionally, the MRO may have spotted the lander’s 15-m-wide parachute about 1 km south of the probable crash site.
