NASA recently announced the apparent reason behind the unsuccessful landing of European Space Agency (ESA) lander "Schiaparelli" on Mars. The claim made by the American space agency is based on its discovery of the crash site of the lander on the surface of the red planet.
Schiaparelli, or ESA lander, is a part of ExoMars probe. The mission was initially idealized to specifically look for evidence of alien life on Mars. Just before its landing on the red planet, the lander lost its contact with the communication systems on Earth.
At the time of landing, the probe or the lander gets six minutes to slow down its speed by firing thrusters at the time of descent and then open the parachute for safe landing. However, the ESA lander did not follow the normal landing path and NASA believes that it exploded due to impact just before landing, according to Nature World News.
The scientists at ESA and India both confirmed that they lost contact with the ESA probe just before it touched down on Mars. However, why the probe lost its contact with Earth just before it landed still remains a mystery.
NASA believe that the lander exploded just before landing. According to NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter, a violent collision occurred, which made ESA lander lose contact with Earth. The space agency has even released a picture showing the potential crash site of the ESA lander.
On the other hand, conspiracy theorist Scott Waring of the ufosightingsdaily.com has a different story to tell. According to Waring, NASA intentionally "shot down" the ESA lander because it did not want it to gather evidence of alien life on Mars.
Waring states that NASA wants to be the first agency to reveal facts about alien life to the world. This is the reason why it wants to prevent Mars mission launched by other agencies to find out evidence related to alien life on Mars.
