The European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli spacecraft is on course to land on Mars, after it successfully separated from its mothership, the Trace Gas Orbiter, on Sunday. <br /><br /> The probe is due to land on the Red Planet’s surface on Wednesday in a controlled decent, if all goes well. <br /><br /> Once there, Schiaparelli is set to take images and conduct scientific measurements. It has also been dispatched to test technology for a future rover mission to Mars.<br />
