Meanwhile, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is operating its science instruments for the first time this week. I can't wait to see the first CASSIS images!

The two Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE images of the landing site taken after the crash are now available in their calibrated form. Together they form a stereo pair covering the landing site.

ExoMars EDM Landing Site in Meridiani Planum (ESP_048041_1780), taken October 25

Second Image of Schiaparelli Landing Event (ESP_048120_1780), taken November 1, covers lander impact site, backshell and parachute in color

The two have been converted into an anaglyph, but I looked at it and couldn't deduce much except that the landing site is flat.

I worked with the second image in order to produce high-resolution color views of the lander and parachute. Usually, when you work with HiRISE data, it's best to work with map-projected images because then north is up and the scale is fixed and known. But map projection, like any other rotation and scaling operation on digital images, blurs the original data somewhat. So when you're interested with features on the scale of individual pixels, it's worth it to work with the "non-map" data, which represents the pixels as they came off the camera detector. Here is the best I could do at revealing detail at the Schiaparelli landing site. You can see the impact crater that it made. I measure it at 11 pixels across -- as the original data have a resolution of 27.8 centimeters per pixel, that's just about exactly 3 meters.