After kicking Russia out of the ExoMars program, the ESA's fancy footwork means the mission is back on for 2028.
The Rosalind Franklin rover will land at theregion, one of the largest regions of exposed, clay-rich rocks on Mars. Oxia Planum is a 200 km wide region containing clays about 3.8 billion years old. Scientists think that Mars harboured surface water and may have been habitable at that time, which is called the. The ancient rocks at Oxia Planum may hold evidence of ancient life, maybe buried beneath the surface.
Detecting organics on Mars is no simple task. Interplanetary dust and meteorites have likely delivered large quantities of abiotic organic molecules to Mars. Characterizing this background organic material is part of the rover’s job. This image shows Amalia testing its drill in simulated Martian conditions. During testing, the rover’s drill penetrated to a depth of 1.7 meters at the ALTEC premises in Italy. This was the rover’s third successful drilling test. Image Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja
“The knock-on effect has vast implications: the built flight hardware needs to be returned to each of the former partners, and then ESA’s elements will need maintenance and refurbishment, while new ESA developments and technologies are now required to fill the void of the elements originally provided by Roscosmos,” the ESA explains.
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