ESA has confirmed that the ExoMars 2016's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mothership has opened its "eyes" and sent back its first test images. Launched on March 14 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the joint ESA/Roscosmos mission to Mars was over 83 million km (52 million mi) from Earth on April 7 when it transmitted a picture of random section of sky near the southern celestial pole as part of its commissioning process.
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