schiaparelli

Still, the weight of evidence at present favors the reality of the phenomena which Schiaparelli describes.

For example, astronomers from Schiaparelli to Lowell said there were canals on the surface of Mars.

And yet the Schiaparelli lander crashed because the machine couldn't give the right answer to a question that was wrong.

Ariane is built by Airbus, Schiaparelli was built by Thales Alenia, two completely independent companies.

Speaking of which, why didn't the Schiaparelli use a proven design for the landing system?

Hopefully ESA doesn't mess up like they did with the Schiaparelli EDM lander.

It must be hard for all the people involved in Schiaparelli development.

Please remember that the Schiaparelli lander was an experimental lander.

Different spacecraft use different methods, I don't know what technology Schiaparelli used.

But I would have hoped the common connection would have greater instilled the need for checking for these sorts of errors, if the Schiaparelli incident is as blutack theorised.

Well, sometimes even good engineers make mistakes, see Schiaparelli and the saturated Kalman filter inputs, but we have a good idea of what those mistakes can be for different schema.

Not a conspiracy-lover, but this is what came to my mind instantly considering there is a still-ongoing investigation about another ESA project - the failure of ESA's Schiaparelli landing, which slammed into Mars back in October 2016.

Was it also "true" in 1877 when Giovanni Schiaparelli detected canals on mars that there were canals on mars?

Giovanni Schiaparelli 1877 observation of "canali" on Mars captivated the public.

> "In 1894, the public became excited by the idea too, after astronomer Percival Lowell suggested that Schiaparelli's observations showed canals that had been made by an alien civilization." Lowell really wanted there to be canals on other planets.

We're years away from landing anything that could dig a hole deeper than Schiaparelli's crater.

Schiaparelli's official name is the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module --- EDM for short.

Schiaparelli used hydrazine for fuel, and if it smashed into the surface it seems to me that it's a reasonable assumption that the whole crash site is contaminated with it.