PIX4606969: Mission ExoMars 2016 - Artist view - ExoMars Mission - Artist view - Artist view of the European mission ExoMars 2016 with the Shiaparelli landing module embarks on the TGO (Trace Gas Orbiter) probe. Artist's impression depicting the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, named Schiaparelli, on the Trace Gas Orbiter, and heading for Mars. TGO will be launched in 2016 with Schiaparelli, the entry, descent and landing demonstrator module. It will search for evidence of methane and other atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes on Mars. TGO will also serve as a communications relay for the rover and surface science platform that will be launched in 2018 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639848: Mars Exploration-Illustration - Martian Explorers - Men's exploration of Mars will require vehicles that can take a crew long distances and provide them with all the necessary protection against this hostile environment. Here, astronauts perform an extravehicular exit to take samples. Explorers don pressure suits and leave the safety of their climate-controlled motor home to examine an outcrop of sedimentary rock on a martian dune field / Bridgeman Images
PIX4583798: Tunguska event -Artist view-3/3 - Tunguska valley - Artist view (3/3) - Artist view of the Tungouska region a few minutes after the explosion, June 30, 1908. 2000 km of forest and taiga were destroyed, blown by the shock wave of the car. Precisely what the Tunguska Event was remains a mystery. Despite the enormous scale of the explosion, there was no impact crater. Instead some 2000 sq/kms of taiga forest was flattened like matchwood and incinerated. This is the scene some minutes after the explosion. Most of the forest has been blown away, the few remaining stumps are burning and the air is full of acrid smoke. June 30 190 / Bridgeman Images