ESA has identified the malfunction that caused the unmanned ExoMars Schiaparelli Mars lander to jettison its parachute and shut down its landing engines prematurely, causing it to crash and explode on the surface of the Red Planet. According to the space agency, it was due to the navigation system being overloaded, so it not only thought it was on the ground, but beneath it.
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