ESA spacecraft
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
Operating; spacecraft health nominal (ESA, EPSC 2026 abstract, September 2026).
At Mars.
Measured
- Agency
- ESA
- Arrived
- 2016-10-19
- From the Earth today
- 1.31 AU (196 million km)
- From Mars's centre
- 3,799 km
How far, from the Earth
1.31 AU. To cross it:
- Light11 minutes
- Voyager 1's speed4.41 months
- Driving at 100 km/h223 years
Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.
Facts
- JPL Horizons trajectory round Mars: worst miss 27 km on the dates it was checked against (median 12 km); between those dates as much as about 82 km. Dates after the data was fetched are Horizons' predictions, which it revises as a mission flies.
Where this comes from
- ESA
- Spacecraft trajectories: JPL Horizons, NASA/JPL-Caltech; each mission's agency credited on its card.
Every catalogue Ouranos draws is credited on the credits page.