FreziWorks – FREZITE Group Magazine – Highlights 2022

Picture source: www.esa.int This image taken by the CaSSIS camera – on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) – shows a fascinating (and otherworldly) landscape in the Southern highlands on the planet Mars. CaSSIS relies on the multilayer coating (MLI) produced by FHP – Frezite High Performance since its launch in 2016, but which is still working in great conditions. These dark traces are caused by “dust devils” (dust swirls) that occur, both on Mars and Earth, when hot air rises rapidly into cooler air. Since its arrival on Mars, the TGO spacecraft has also provided the planet’s best inventory of atmospheric gases, as well as mapping the planet’s surface searching for potentially water- rich locations. And it will provide data relay services for the second ExoMars mission when it reaches Mars next year. Picture source: Esa / Roscomos CaSSIS provides images of “dust devils” from Mars icture source: European Space Agency 33