Europe’s ExoMars orbiter has beamed back its first set of images of the Red Planet, showing high res close-ups of the surface and proving it will be sensitive enough to map gases in the atmosphere.

Each of NASA’s two Martian rovers reported back to Earth last week via the new European orbiter, in the first successful relay test of Mars’ growing telecoms network. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) put ...

With the help of NASA, ESA has located their failed Schiaparelli lander. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Mars-orbiting satellite equipped with cameras, was able to image the Schiaparelli landing ...