(ANSA) - Rome, October 21 - The ExoMars mission's
Schiaparelli lander probably crashed onto Mars at a speed of 300
km/h from a height of 2-4 km and may have exploded on impact,
the European Space Agency (ESA) said Friday after viewing
pictures of the impact site taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter probe. Schiaparelli, carrying a lot of Italian-made
technology, crashed early Thursday after retro-rockets fired for
only three seconds instead of the planned 30 because of an
onboard computer glitch.
Schiaparelli 'crashed at 300 km/h' (2)
May have exploded on impact