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The European Space Agency's probe, Schiaparelli, has crashed on Mars.

The European Space Agency's ARIEL space telescope is scheduled for launch in 2028 and will observe some 1,000 planets, a sampling large enough to identify patterns and outliers.

The agency's emblem is distinctive: A red cross emblazoned against a white background, the original symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention to mark and protect individuals and objects that provide humanitarian aid in armed conflict zones.

Using the space agency's X-ray telescope, the researchers saw two arcs of gas with a thin layer of relatively cool hydrogen gas.

The space agency's mineralogist says this asteroid was unique because researchers can compare the data collected before it came down, with the recovered fragments.