High Stakes: Europe Aims for 1st Successful Mars Landing Today

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 00:01 in Astronomy & Space

The Schiaparelli lander — part of the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission — is scheduled to touch down on Mars at 10:48 a.m. EDT today (Oct. 19). To date, only NASA has pulled off a fully successful mission to the Martian surface.

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