Mars Express mission team
Mission Manager: Patrick Martin – based at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Spain
Project Scientist: Colin Wilson – based at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the Netherlands
Instrument principal investigators
Instrument | Acronym | Principal investigator |
High-Resolution Stereo Camera | HRSC | T. Roatsch, Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany |
Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l'Eau, les Glaces et l'Activité | OMEGA | J. Carter, Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) and Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), France |
Planetary Fourier Spectrometer | PFS | M. Giuranna, Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy |
Analyser of Space Plasma and Energetic Atoms | ASPERA | M. Holmström, S. Barabash, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden |
Mars Radio Science Experiment | MaRS | M. Pätzold, Rheinishes Institut für Umweltforschung, Universität Cologne, Germany |
Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars | SPICAM | F. Montmessin, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations spatiales (LATMOS), France |
Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding | MARSIS |
PI: R. Orosei, Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy Co-PI: J. Plaut, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA |
Visual Monitoring Camera | VMC | Team lead: A. Sánchez-Lavega, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. |