The first images of CaSSIS show the Tharsis face of Mars at a resolution of 460km/px. The image was taken from a distance of 41 million kilometers. Credit: The resolution is expected to exceed the resolution of Hubble’s Pictures already this October. © ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars/UniBe/CaSSIS
The Mars Camera CaSSIS on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured its first images of the Red Planet this week. The pictures are a part of the mission’s preparations for arriving at its destination in October. CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) has been developed by a team led by the University of Bern. It was launched with ESA’s ExoMars TGO in March and has already travelled just under half of its nearly 500 million km journey.
While the orbiter’s ‘first-light’ image of a star field was su...
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