ExoMars, Italian are the three women who coordinate the instruments intended to Mars – The Messenger

Three degrees in Physics, two doctorates in Space Engineering and another in Astronomy. Are the heavy credentials Francesca Esposito, Maria Cristina De Sanctis (both INAF) and Francesca Ferri (University Centre of Studies and Activities for Space “Giuseppe Colombo of Padova), the three Italian stars of the ESA ExoMars mission.

the three researchers are Principal Investigator (supervisors) to three different instruments which will start at different times, the spacecraft that has as Mars destination.

PRESENTATION
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 Francesca Esposito 43 years, Naples, works at the INAF Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Maria Cristina De Sanctis is employed at the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Planetology INAF Rome. Respectively supervisors Dreams and Ma-Miss, while Francesca Ferri is resposabile of Amelia tool.

THE INSTRUMENT DREAMS

 It is a small meteorological station on board the lander Schiaparelli, that will measure the atmospheric conditions of the landing. It has the task to measure temperature, humidity, pressure, opacity of dust, wind speed and direction. You will also perform measurements of a series of electrical properties of the Martian atmosphere which until now have never been obtained.

TOOL MA-MISS

 This tool (the acronym Mars multispectral imager for subsurface studies) will come into action in the second phase of the mission. You will find its place on the spacecraft accompanying the rover that will explore Mars from 2018. It ‘was produced with the support of ASI, Italian Space Agency. It is none other than a spectrometer for the geological and biological evolution analysis of the Martian subsurface, inserted inside the drill two meters long (Drill), which will analyze the shape of the inner surface of the red planet.

THE OTHER ITALIAN TECHNOLOGY

 Not only Dreams and Ma-Miss, the mission itaiani other contributions as Amelia (Mars Atmospheric Entry and Landing Investigation and Analylsis), which has the task to analyze the Martian atmosphere using data collected by the sensors during the descent of the lander on Schiaparelli Martian surface (supervisor Francesca Ferri Cisas- the University of Padua) and Inrri (Instrument for landing-Roving laser Retroreflector Investigations) carried out under the scientific supervision of Simone Dell’agnello, physicist of the National Laboratories of Frascati (LNF) INFN. It ‘a microriflettore Italian Space Agency laser (ASI) and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
         

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