Mission to Mars
Channel: OUresearch on YouTube
Date: 11/03/2016

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As the the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter prepares to blast off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Monday 14 March for a seven month journey to Mars, arriving in October, OU academic, Dr Manish Patel describes the mission and his team's involvement.

The ExoMars Orbiter is carrying an array of instruments with significant British involvement which will hunt for methane gas emissions, which could signal the presence of life-forms in Mars’ past.
 
Dr Patel in Space Science at the OU is co-Principal Investigator for the NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery) instrument on board the probe. 

Hear what he has to say about NOMAD.

Read the full story at: http://www.open.ac.uk/research/main/news/mission-mars-prepares-for-blast