The cause of the accident Schiaparellego detected. Blame the computer – TVP Info

For the destruction of the boat occurred on 19 October. According to scientists, a computer that measured the rotational movement of the boat, was subjected to overloading, which led to errors in the calculations.

“Received incorrect information indicated the height of the numbers is negative, which means that the computer apparatus is under the surface of the planet. As a result, and happened too early abandonment of the parachute and the insulator, the engine start braking for too short a time, and eventually activate the system ground, as if Schiaparelli had already landed. In reality, the craft was at an altitude of about 3.7 km," the statement says ESA.

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the Engineers assumed that Schiaparelli needs to slow down from 21 thousand km/h to zero and to survive temperatures in excess of 1500 degrees Celsius. The device is equipped so that the insulation, parachute, brake motors and special, capable of obtaining crushed by a structure that was supposed to absorb the impact on the planet’s surface. Not provided, however, that overheats the computer.

the Agency notes that these are preliminary findings. A full report on the catastrophe of the lander, which was created as part of the ExoMars program, also based on the opinion of independent experts, is expected to be ready in the first months of 2017.

the Second part of the Russian-European ExoMars program scheduled for 2020. Then on the red Planet to fly a Rover that will drill into the planet’s surface and explored the samples.