European Probe to Attempt Daring Mars Landing Wednesday: What to Expect

The landing capsule, named Schiaparelli, is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet's surface tomorrow (Oct. 19) as part of ExoMars 2016, a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space agency. Schiaparelli launched into space attached to the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on March 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and spent seven months traveling more than 300 million miles (480 million km) to Mars.

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