{"id":11471,"date":"2023-05-26T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T00:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11471"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:18:10","slug":"what-is-the-exomars-trace-gas-orbiter-tgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-exomars-trace-gas-orbiter-tgo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>TGO is the <strong>first in a series of joint missions<\/strong> <strong>between t<\/strong>he <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) <strong>and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Goal<\/strong>: To gain a <strong>better understanding of methane and other atmospheric gases<\/strong> that are <strong>present in small concentrations<\/strong> (less than 1% of the atmosphere) <strong>in the Martian atmosphere.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The orbiter\u2019s sensitivity to hydrogen has also allowed it to <strong>search for water buried underneath shallow layers of Martian soil.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s also <strong>meant to test technology for future missions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>launched in March 2016<\/strong> and began operations after entering Mars orbit on Oct. 19, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>TGO <strong>carried the Schiaparelli lander<\/strong> with it to Mars. However, <strong>it was crashed during landing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>spacecraft itself is a 3.2 meter by 2 meter by 2 meter box<\/strong>, <strong>fitted with one antenna to communicate with Earth<\/strong> and another to communicate with spacecraft on the surface of Mars.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>powered by a pair of solar arrays<\/strong> that protrude from its sides like wings, along with two small batteries to keep it running during eclipses, when it doesn\u2019t receive any sunlight.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>carries several instruments including,<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NOMAD<\/strong> (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery);<\/li>\n<li><strong>ACS<\/strong> (Atmospheric Chemistry Suite);<\/li>\n<li><strong>CaSSIS<\/strong> (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System);<\/li>\n<li><strong>FREND<\/strong> (Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery)?<\/h3>\n<p>(NOMAD) instrument is a spectrometer suite led by the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), being flown on the ESA\/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission.NOMAD consists of three separate channels, Solar Occultation (SO), Limb Nadir and Occultation (LNO) and Ultraviolet and VIsible Spectrometer (UVIS), all controlled via a single main electronics unit (SINBAD).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/first-contact-alien-signal-beamed-to-earth-from-mars-for-the-first-time-2384070-2023-05-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>First contact: Alien signal beamed to Earth from Mars for the first time<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is a joint mission between the European Space Agency and Roscosmos, Russian space agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}