European Scientists are facing an anxious wait before they can learn that whether Europe's first Mars landing has been successful or not.

"Until tomorrow morning the fate of the Schiaparelli lander may not be known," said by The European Space Agency (ESA).

The ESA lost contact with its Schiaparelli Mars lander one minute before it was supposed to landing on the surface of the red planet Wednesday. This incident leading to fears the spacecraft may have crashed.

The Exo-Mars mission 2016, with the joint partnership of Russia, consists of the Trace Gas Orbiter, Which is now circling the red planet, and the lander, which may now be lost, said by ESA

However, the ESA Director Jan Woerner is claiming the mission is successful. Before signal lost ESA is recorded all the important data about how to land on Mars, reported by Reuters.

The Schiaparelli lander started its journey in March when it launched into space on Russian rocket attached to its mother ship. In the last seven months, the robot hurtled towards the red planet before separating from its mother ship. The craft was armed with four different technologies to help it make the safe descent and also have crushable aluminum structure means to make it absorbs the landing impact. But the design may not have succeeded.

Europe has already seen two of its Mars landing failure after touching down on the Mars. Soviet Union probe stopped transmitting after only 20 seconds during 1971 mission.

The Schiaparelli was designed as a technological demonstrator -a project to give Europe learning experience before more ambitious six-wheeled rover Mars mission in 2021, reported by Enzherald.

ESA director general said," Before the Mars mission in 2021, this is a typical test "

But the main concern, if Schiaparelli is indeed lost, ESA officials may be a problem to explain to member states before 2021 Mars mission the more investment is justified or not.

Getting to Red planet is one thing, successfully landing there is quite another.

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