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Timeline 1 : http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/10140937-exomars-timeline.html
Timeline 2 (more precise): http://spaceflight101.com/exomars/exomars-2016-landing-data/
Entry-Descent-landing detailed timeline
(mars time, totale elapsed time, time to landing, single phase time, description, Earth Received Time):
14:42:18  00:00:00  00:05:53  00:00:00  Atmospheric Entry Starts (Altitude: 121km, Speed: 5.83km/s)    14:52:04
14:43:30  00:01:12  00:04:41  00:01:12  Peak Heating - 1750°C (Altitude: 45km, Speed: 5.3km/s)    14:53:16
14:45:39  00:03:21  00:02:32  00:02:09  Parachute Deployment (Altitude: 11km, Speed: 472m/s)    14:55:25
14:46:19  00:04:01  00:01:52  00:00:40  Heat Shield Jettison, Radar Activation (Altitude: 7km, Speed: 89m/s)    14:56:05
14:47:20  00:05:02  00:00:51  00:01:01  Descent Camera Starts Imaging (15 Images)    14:57:0x
14:47:40  00:05:22  00:00:31  00:00:20  Backshell Jettison (Altitude: 1.2km, Speed: 66.5m/s)    14:57:26
14:47:41  00:05:23  00:00:30  00:00:01  Landing Thruster Ignition (Altitude: 1.1km, Speed: 69.5m/s)    14:57:27
14:48:10  00:05:52  00:00:01  00:00:29  Landing Thruster Cutoff (Altitude: 2m, Speed: 1.1m/s)    14:57:56
14:48:11  00:05:53  00:00:00  00:00:01  Touchdown    14:57:57
 
 
Thrusters firing expected duration:
29 seconds
Measured duraiton (preliminary): max  4 seconds
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