On March 14, 2016, the European Space Agency’s ExoMars spacecraft launched on a mission to search for life on Mars. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com
The mission consisted of an orbiter called the Trace Gas Orbiter and a lander called Schiaparelli. The Trace Gas Orbiter would study the atmosphere of Mars while relaying communications between the lander and Earth. The two spacecraft blasted off together on a Russian Proton r