Schiaparelli’s descent to Mars in real time
Visualisation of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module entering and descending through the atmosphere to land on Mars. The animation follows a simulated timeline of the module, starting when it enters the atmosphere at an altitude of 121 km at 14:42 GMT. In six minutes it will use a heatshield, parachute and thrusters to brake from 21 000 km/h to a near standstill 2 m above the surface, where a crushable structure on its underside will absorb the final shock.
The key operational milestones are highlighted in the animation at the predicted times at which they have been calculated to occur. However, the actual times may vary depending on the atmospheric conditions on the day, the final path through the atmosphere and the speed at which the module descends.
The times indicated in the animation are onboard spacecraft times at Mars. The one-way signal travel time on 19 October is just under 10 minutes, meaning that signals relayed by spacecraft at Mars are received on Earth about 10 minutes after the event itself has happened on the Red Planet.
Both Schiaparelli and the Mars scenery in this animation are computer-generated.
Hey ESA! We're all geeks here! Just show off all the important data in usual measures. Velocity, acceleration, hight over ground, mass, etc.. And by usual measures I mean m/s, m/s², kg, m. You know the drill. That would be really nice!
Check the description and the top right corner of the video for that info.
Check my comment again and realize why your comment was pointless.
Agree, average KSP players like us are looking for that data.
dunealex73 you're being rather #salty towards someone who was only offering friendly advice. If it's those particularly units you're after then perform a unit conversion. If you can't perform that conversion well... you're not much of a geek. If you're after more data, go to ESA's website and/or Wikipedia. Or, better still, read up a little on supersonic fluid dynamics and work out the deceleration for yourself.
And we get dissapointed everywhere. ESA, NASA, SpaceX... Afaik Indias content is the closest so far. They at least use km/s and km, I can live with that.^^
Nice that everything worked, at least in the simulation.
Could you show it's speed as well in furher simulations and so on? That'd be great!
velocity. speed is not a vector
Nokijuxas I agree. It would be nice to see how much its slowing down. im sure ive heard the speed its entered the atmosphere before, like 24,000 km, and the declines from the aerobreaking and parachute opening, but i aint a computer. Speed was/is needed
Wow this first time for me "wonder"thank you verymuch💖
Good luck, I hope you achieve a soft landing and the crushable structure works! Making lithobraking a real thing, nice! =D Can you please provide speed and acceleration values in future videos if it's not too much work. That would be pretty impressive imo.
PRAKASH
i have some bad news for you
Spectacular! Thank you :O)
I don't see the part where it crashes and explodes.
1: check the upload date. 2: this is a animation on what they expected to happen.
Dustin M Sigh... there really ought to be a sarcasm punctuation mark.
DevilMaster yea that is needed nowadays
You can use /s at the end of the comment for sarcasm.
c:\ *delete Schiaparelli_folder /s*
Finally propulsive landing is taking off, thank you curiosity. And good luck spacex on eventually nailing down this technique and technology.
Schiaparelli’s descent in real life: Weeeeeeooooaaaaahhh - boom
Nice vídeo and Nice simulation that help us understand a Idea.Many thanks for the demonstration.One and All.
Good luck to everyone over at ESA, can't wait for the data to come streaming in!
Glade the simulated thing landed okay.
the landing, so elegant.
Awesome! Let's see some pics!
Even though is a simulation, it's for sure that there is up there, congratulations to all the ones that contributed to the success
RIP my precious little Lander- may you perform all the science you could ever want, in robot heaven.
all the best for you!!!!
Thank you
I am somebody who has followed most of the space race as it was once called. I have done so with a great big question mark over the intelegence of those involved over that time. The atmosphere on mars is well documented, as is the movement on the surface once arrived. Call me stupid, but I seem to remember that the atmosphere is less than that of earth and the surface is at best suited much more to a tractor than a sports car, so why send a sports car. By now I would have expected that they would have worked out that you can cover a lot more ground and visit a lit more places if they sent some sort of aircraft. Even just a model aircraft with large fold up wings, covered with a solar energy film for power, that can be rooled up when the craft is on the ground, in order to protect the film from dust. The addition of a body that is gas tight and filled with hydrogen or some such gas to reduce further the overall weight, possibly making so that the thing never actually lands but can tether itself overnight. The idea of sending tin cans on wheels to me seems very short sighted, they take a lot of energy to move and as has been seen, are very subject to dust problems, ware as a prop driven aircraft, or multi prop come to that would serve two perposes movement and a fan to blow away dust, and if designed correctly the aero dynamics of the body would and could assist this. roll out cover on the bottom could cover all the instruments during down time, and rolled away once in flight. A skid and wheel system for landing and takingboff, again aided by a gas filled body would even be a way of getting over resistant at unstick speed. By dropping three or more GPS MODULES the craft could build up a data bank of locations, making it posdible to pick the best and safest place to set down and tether up during storms. Does anyone else see the sense of this, and the real possabilities of such a project or am I a lost cause?
you don't even need a complicated foldable airplane.... the atmosphere might be a 100 times thinner so it might not work entirely and perfectly as expected, but what about blimps with folding solar arrays underneath, it'll keep floating until the balloon pops somehow, and with the proper controls you can change altitude and land it in case of a dust storm... well dust breeze really since martian winds are not that strong... also, you don't necessarily have to land a lander if it can be released flying if programmed right... then again im no (rocket) scientist ;). my guess is that a blimp can do far more, that is.... if it doesn't need to drill and stuff, it can do that, but needs special modules and landing equipment to be able to do that... and drilling holes is apparently what the scientists want as they want to analyze the soil and such...
In order to have buoyant lift, you need a differential between the atmosphere and the lifting body for volume, pressure, and mass. To lift just a few pounds, the gas-envelope would have to be HUGE. This means much more weight in equipment and buoyancy gas to bring along, which would make even a basic "thin" mission prohibitively expensive. Then the whole is adrift and prone to Martian weather whims, including uncontrollable crashes, which actually increases the probability of failure. I like the balloon idea myself, but it is not practical, except for modern steam-punk fiction. As far as an aerodynamically lifting areal vehicle is concerned, its propulsion and lifting body and wings would add to weight yet again and the engine must be strong enough to propel and lift at take-off, and then you want to land this thing safely every day, instead of landing a rover lander just once?
***** ah right, yes i forgot mars has as good as no atmosphere to make flight or balloons a good alternative (balloons are still better then wings here though...), must have mixed with venusian atmosphere at some point while typing... as for mars weather being whimsical... its nowhere near strong enough to do harm to anything and blow lightweight dust around, thats not dangerous to a balloon as far as i know and you don't have to land a balloon unless you want to do tests, the weather is a non issue. the plane however needs to land due to recharging enough energy for propulsion and it not having a buoyant gas to keep it in the air but wings that need engine power to generate lift that is dangerous, hence i suggested the balloon... but yeah a balloon requires a thick enough atmosphere... both these ideas would work perfectly in venusian atmosphere, ah well... my bad.
Great job
you forgot to simulate the fail
I kinda felt the same way. it looked a smooth approach descending down until at the very end when the retros used to slow it down shut off making the probe come down kinda hard if it had landing landing pads like it should have it probably would have survived it. now curiousity had an extension parachute along with it's retros firing until the craft did indeed land on the surface of mars then the retro extension part would detach and fly off to a safe distance an crash there.
"Six minute of terror by ESA" nice work..... good luck ESA !
Would be more clever to send a couple of Nokia 3210. BTW. The Thrusters stage of landing seemed unwarranted to me. Sad to know that i wasn't groundless on that issue.
Renat Khanzarov It's impossible to land on Mars with just a parachute, so the thrusters were very warranted
Yep. I didn't say they are useless, i said they are the bottleneck.
Then how would you do it? The options are pretty limited with atmosphere that thin.
Matthew Ives use springs ))) kidding. Seriously - pay the most attention to thrusters. Maybe they did, but as we see that wasn't enough. Gyro may also be the cause or ignition system.
The thrusters shut down early for some reason, they would have landed safely if they had worked properly. Whether it was due to a programming or mechanical failure has yet to be seen. But they will fix it for the next mission.
that's 6 minutes and 19 seconds of my life i won't be getting back.
Good luck to the lander and the ESA team!
Humanity need more knowledge of Mars, thank you for go there.
Good luck!
esa, why do you forget to quicksave so much!?
Eu queria mesmo era visitar esse planeta,estou encantadíssima com esses vídeos e essas imagens magníficas.
Nice job👊👍
In my opinion better to try the ring of asteroids that lies between Mars and Jupiter, to select a block of ice, set the charges on them so that they fell to Mars. Thus there will be more water. Her pair raise density of the atmosphere because of which melts at the poles caps of frozen carbon dioxide, and will raise the density of the atmosphere even more. From this it follows that it is possible to use parachutes for landing, no need to carry water to the plant and can be grown in open ground. And if the water will be enough at the equator is reduced temperature fluctuations. water will heat the battery like on the ground. I understand that this is a super complex task can just about no one thought, decided to tell.
I feel so sorry for our European counterparts.. Don't get discuraged by this tragic mishap! Next try WILL be a success!
It looks like it's going through an atmosphere to me!
No sound, no commentary.. this could have been another version of "7 minutes of terror" ... but a half of it is missing.. :-/ great to see the action anyway.. :-)
Amazing ESA
Good ! It could have been better if the speed would be informed as well as temperature.
Ty vole jak to natočili !!!
awesome animation
Thanks for message USA 👍
Good simulation.
ground velocity and acceleration, please
Sirs: nice sim, sorry the thing didn't make it. Could you rewind this and add a velocity line? Thanks - and better luck next time...
This is how Star Wars should sound like.
xD
Aren't you worried it might land on a rock and break?
Essa parada parece uma quentinha!
In the upper part down. Reset the basin for washing clothes to a great height at high speed will become more clear. 04 : 10 - 05 : 30
Schrapnelli 😁
Lots of Schrapnelli indeed. LOL x 10000
Evil but genious. Love it! x'D
LOL
what no camera? wana buy a go pro?
may be you and create techologi for translation on Earth from Mars?
Is this a real photo? If then, I am so privileged to watch it. Thank you.
*No its not.*
What happened at the end? :D
What is the gravity on Mars? Is it able to obtain any information after the landing? Mars has the largest canyon in the universe that we know of. Its over 100 times the size of the grand canyon. I forgot the name of it.
SUPER !
I'm so stressed for Schiaparelli ... :'(
Rocketflyer1957 jure
Ale fajna symulacja, wygląda jak naprawdę.
ESA, that title is ClickBait put SIMULATION: Schiaparelli’s descent to Mars in real time
Excellent job ESA!!
I know. Not a doubt that they succeeded as smooth as anticipated.
........awkward!
Sadlt.. it crashed... :( Reply to me ESA, on why did it crash please.
Why no reading of velocity?
Great...thánk
R.I.P
Na computador tudo é lindo!!
*Save time for this simulation. Watch it at 2x speed.*
Un aterrizaje espantoso, golpea tremendamente
titoli accattivanti come i bimbiminchia.. non ho parole
the thrusters didnt work properly and the thing hit mars at an estimated 186 mph. is it ok you ask? i think not
well, where?
i was speaking to a martian and he rekons its a right bastard of a job landing on mars. he also rekons its a right long hike to get there too. i fuckin love space and that shit!
Did this work in practice?
Wow, 21 000 km/h! It's unbelievable, almost 1 km per second. What was the speed of Apollo crews, when they were hitting the Earth's atmosphere?
Samuel Bungo 21000 kph is 6km/s
Yrkelo Volrand Popov was an idiot like you!! Russia couldn't land a rock on the moon much less people.. Oh I'm sorry.. Forgive me,, I forgot you guys did land a bathtub or something after we landed Surveyor space craft all over the moon.. Oh yeah plus we put 12 men on the moon who all brought samples back.. Totalling 800 plus pounds.. How many men did Russia land there?? How many pounds of moon rocks did you people bring back?? Lets google it... Ummm according to our American Made Internet and Google search engine it says ZERO!! ZIP!! NONE!! It has been quite a few years since men from America stood proudly on its surface.. Why hasn't Russia even tried to put ONE man on the moon?? Oh that's right,, because it is not possible and America faked the landings I forgot again.. Do you also believe the earth is flat?? Wake Up!! America LANDED on the Moon!! I have proof!! Walter Cronkite said so.. Why would he lie?? lmmfao😀👍
RIP Schiaparelli
who else watched this at exactly the time when it was happening?
No landing legs ?
why did you land it without the parachute? The chute was only helpful. Without it the landing was too harsh. Use both the parachute and thrusters and double the security level in this way. If you want to test thruster landing in Mars atmospehere you can build a vacuum camera on Earth - won't it be cheaper than crushing a probe? Anyway, I came here to see the landing from Schiaparelli's cameras during the landing and I got only this simulation (high-quality though).
so did it survive or not? I heard they lost contract with it before it actually landed
Wylądował!!!
Has the lander made contact? I haven't seen anything on the news about this.
General Ripper1964 This is set to happen today, 19 October
Beat it geek
it probably failed....now i find this so strange because dont they share knowledge with nasa which has put two rovers on mars? dont tell me somebody was measuring in centimeters or inches.....
www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/20/how-the-exomars-schiparelli-lander-may-have-met-its-fate-on-mars regardless they did an absolute amazing job. It's something out of this world complex. Never give up an inch on space exploration.
very poor design also the thrusters are almost shaking the whole damn thing apart. esa did lie a bit because on the LIVE simulation you can clearly see it drop from 2 meters or so but what really happened is that probably the engines stopped not at 2 meters but 50 or 100 meters above ground. someone was measuring in inches not centimeters hahaha
Even in this animation it looks unstable landing 5:33
Excelente esta simulacion. Cuando debio llegar a Marte esta sonda? Que le paso?
¿Qué ha pasado con la sonda?
"What Is And What Should Never Be"
did it diededed?
Man I hope it's ok.
The computer has turned off the thrusters. I imagine if there were astronauts. Traces of life on Mars , traces of stew....;))
Why did you guys leave out the part were Schiaparelli turns into a burning fire ball.
There's enough atmosphere for the parachute to effectively slow the craft? Interesting...
is that a landing on Duna?
Oh yes, in Budapest.
Jebediah is not part of it unfortunately :(
Haha... You play KSP?
Just put 10 parachutes next time.
And more boosters
Unfortunately something got wrong. DON'T GIVE IN, all experience is prolific in lessons ESA must go on with enthusiasm.
Отличная графика! Кто-то очень постарался.
Was the parachute designed to spin the capsule during descent or is that just something done by the animator?
good
They forgot the part where it crashed.
Basically, what a fire needs to ignite is three elements: heat, fuel, and an Oxygen.
Is it possible to see the parachute from any Mars orbiter? At least that? : (
Alunizajes reconocidos por cosmonautas! Yes!! It is absolutely possible and has been done in the past.. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of Curiosity's parachute decent.. It all depends upon an orbiting vehicles location at the time of entry by any other craft.. It is a remarkable point of view for several orbiting platforms that are presently in orbit around Mars.. If they have a clear point of view you can bet they are trying to capture an image of it..
My question though is. . who or what is recording video if the lander and spacecraft are unmanned? 😕
THEYCALLMEOLDSCHOOL light signals and programming my friend.
Ohhhhhhhh ..okay thanks
its a simulation...
it's a simulation
Anyone know a tow truck place on Mars?
haha this is the best 3d in years
This is more like a parody landing of curiosity... Leaving something that small to fly 1km above the surface will spin around its inertia...
I am mech.eng. I can feel such a stuff...
greg liako do you really think a group of scientists with years of experience don't know what they are doing?
"I am mech.eng. I can feel such a stuff.." yea because engineering is all about feelings, riiight.
Yes I actually do. ESA and NASA didnt develop nothing special the past decades. All parts and inovations are coming from the defence industrie. They have failed even puting this thing together. Did you see the landing? The chances landing on a sharp rock on mars are very high. And this thing stops 3m above the surface and then falls down with a 600kg weight! And this should called engineering?
You do understand that gravitational acceleration on Mars is merely 3.724 m/s2, i.e.only 38% of that on Earth? Thus, the lander will not impact the surface with much force as it will not accelerate very much, nor will it weigh 600 kg on Mars. Plus it has a shock-absorbing structure at the bottom. Besides, something went wrong already with parachute separation, not actual surface contact.
Que decida alucinante de mais BRASIL
Martian A to martian B: "There are no such thing as flying sau... ooooh"