{"id":12167,"date":"2016-03-14T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/swiss-camera-leaves-for-the-red-planet\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:39:34","slug":"swiss-camera-leaves-for-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/swiss-camera-leaves-for-the-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss camera leaves for the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A camera designed and built at the Center of Space and Habitability of the University of Bern was launched into space this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/RTEmagicC_Encapsulation_of_ExoMars_2016-1.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" txdam=\"441\" title=\"The ExoMars orbiter with CaSSIS on board is encapsulated into the rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. \u00a9 ESA \u2013 B. Bethge\" alt=\"The ExoMars orbiter with CaSSIS on board is encapsulated into the rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. \u00a9 ESA \u2013 B. Bethge\" style=\"padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; float: left;\" \/>The European Mars satellite ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (<link http:>TGO<\/link>) is on its way to Mars, where it will search for traces of biological life. Scheduled to reach its destination in October, it carries <link http:>CaSSIS<\/link> (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System), a high-resolution stereo camera that will take detailed pictures of Mars\u2019 surface. The development of CaSSIS was led by the <link http:>University of Bern<\/link> and completed in cooperation with Swiss industry and partners in Italy, Poland and Hungary. \u201cCaSSIS is the best system we could build with the available resources\u201d, <link http:>says<\/link> the leader of the science team, Nicolas Thomas of the Center of Space and Habitability (<link http:>CSH<\/link>). It usually takes 38 months to build such a complicated instrument, but the camera was completed in a record time of 23 months.<\/p>\n<p>This launch is the first mission in the ExoMars program, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (<link http:>ESA<\/link>) and the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Its primary scientific objectives are to determine in detail the Martian atmosphere\u2019s composition, in particular the amount of trace gases present, and to acquire high-resolution stereo images of the planet\u2019s surface from orbit. 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