At 10:42 am the Schiaparelli Lander depart from its carrier craft  - the Tras Gas Orbiter. The European spacecraft which is really designed to land on the red planet has successfully separated (after traveling seven months) from its mothership on Sunday (Oct. 16) from earth who will reach the surface of Mars later this week.

"We can confirm good separation from the Schiaparelli module", The ExoMar's flight director, Michel Denis said it during live ESA (European Space Agency) webcast from the agency's mission control center in Germany. After receiving the successful separation of the two, the flight controllers applauded and confirms that, If everything goes so well, the two probes will the reach the Red Planet on Wednesday, October 19, Space reports.

The Trace Gas Orbiter is an orbiting satellite and the Schiaparelli lander make up the ExoMars 2016 mission, it is a collaboration of the Russia's Roscosmos and European Space Agency ( ESA). Using parachute, heat shield, and thrusters to test technologies for the future rover mission that aims to find any signs of alien life on Mars.

The TGO or the Trace Gas Orbiter is built to find out water-ice below or deposits on the Martian surface, it investigates the presence of Methane on Mars to give scientists information and learn how the gas that can be created from the biological and geological process, may have formed. After entering the orbit of Mars this Wednesday, Trace Gas Orbiter will begin its long series of aerobraking that will expect to last till 2017.

"Today, three days before gravity will ensure the arrival of ExoMars 2016 at Mars, the Schiaparelli Entry, Descent & landing demonstrator Module separated from the Tras Gas orbiter and is now en route on a ballistic trajectory to reach the Mars, enter its atmosphere and land gently in an area close to the equator known as Meridiani Planum," ESA said.

Schiaparelli is powered by internal batteries, it is expected to operate only for a few days on Mars. The Last attempt of a British spacecraft lost contact during their final descent to the Martian Planet, if Schiaparelli will make a successful landing, it would be the first European lander to land on the Red Planet (Mars).

The second mission of the ExoMars and surface science station to the Red Planet in 2020.