Paris (AFP) - The Euro-Russian spacecraft ExoMars, launched towards the Red Planet last month, has sent home its first pictures from space and is in "excellent health", the European Space Agency said Thursday.
Launched on March 14 on a Russian Proton rocket, the craft is designed to "smell" Mars' atmosphere for gassy evidence that life once existed on Earth's neighbour, or may do so still.
The probe's high-resolution camera was switched on for the first time on April 7, and took its first grainy, black and white snapshots of space.
"These first images are very reassuring. Everything points to.....
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