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This file photo handout photo taken from the European Space Agency website on March 1, 2016 shows an artist's impression depicting the separation of the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, named Schiaparelli, from the Trace Gas Orbiter, and heading for Mars. Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander is set to separate from its mothership on October 16, 2016 for a three-day, one million-kilometre (621,000-mile) descent to the Red Planet's surface to test landing gear for a future rover. Ground controllers reported a break Sunday in status data from a European-Russian Mars orbiter after it released a tiny lander on a three-day trek to the Red Planet’s surface. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was sending signals home, but “we don’t have telemetry at the moment”, flight director Michel Denis of the ExoMars mission said via live webcast from mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. Ground controllers were “working towards restoring telemetry”, according to a tweet from ESA Operations.(Photo by D. Ducros/AFP Photo/ESA)
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