Footage
Cosmonautics. Water on Mars. (2018)

In 2016, a spacecraft of the Russian-European ExoMars-2016 program was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome.

The Martian TGO spacecraft enters a working orbit around the Red Planet, the scientific equipment is being checked.

Of the scientific instruments installed on the TGO module, four were developed and manufactured at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: a neural detector "Friend" for searching for water and an ACC complex of three spectrometers for studying the atmosphere of Mars.

Scientists Alexander Trokhimovsky, Alexey Shakun, Igor Mitrofanov, Maxim Mokrousov and Alexey Malakhov talk about how the equipment works and about the search for water on Mars.

If these searches are successful, it will be useful, among other things, for the development of the lunar program.

Personnel

Trokhimovsky A.Yu. - Chief Specialist of the Laboratory of Experimental Spectroscopy of the ICI RAS.
Shakun A.V. - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, researcher at the Laboratory of Spectroscopy of Planetary Atmospheres of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS).
Mitrofanov I.G. - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Mokrousov M.I. - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior researcher at the Laboratory of Space Gamma Spectroscopy of the Institute of Space Research (ICI RAS).
Malakhov A.V. - Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the ICI RAS.

Calendar

03.16.2018