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by jonnys1 3529 days ago
I am bit uninformed, can someone explain we what happened?
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Euros sent a probe/lander to Mars, it crashed. The orbiter it traveled with, which has it's own mission to analyze trace gasses in Mars outer atmosphere(I think) is working fine.

Earth is 25-29 against Mars.

A currency sent a probe to Mars?
Well.... Yeah it probably took a bunch of them.

Sorry, I was in a hurry and shortened Europeans to Euros. Probably could have said ESA.

Schiaparelli was a disk with a crumple designed to land on Mars. The disk interrupted its signal one minute before landing and scientists are trying to explain why: descense too fast, incorrect model, unexpected failure, anything else.