European Mars Spacecraft Sees Its Destination from Afar

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 14:01 in Astronomy & Space

The ExoMars mission, currently en route to the Red Planet, has caught its first glimpse of the Martian surface. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) took an image of Mars from 25 million miles (41 million kilometers) away on June 13.

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