Tag: ExoMars 2020

  • ExoMars – Protection for life on Mars

    ExoMars – Protection for life on Mars

    The ExoMars mission foresees Rosalind Franklin the rover and its surface platform Kazachok landing on the Red Planet in 2021. The rover will move across many types of terrain, collect samples with a 2 m-long drill and analyse them with instruments in its onboard laboratory.
    This episode about ExoMars shows the integration of the locomotion system and the science payload to the rover in a specially designed, fit-for-purpose cleanroom at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, United Kingdom.
    Mars is a primary target in the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life, past or present. There are stringent planetary protection requirements in place to make sure that ExoMars does not introduce terrestrial biological contamination to the Red Planet. ESA ensures planetary protection according to the legal obligations of the United Nations Outer Space Treaty.
    Microbiological contamination is strictly controlled during the assembly of the rover. The cleanroom is amongst the cleanest places on Earth, cleaner than a standard hospital operating theatre thanks to filtered air, application of rigorous cleanliness procedures and workers who remain fully shrouded within ‘bunny suits’.
    The rover spent 18 months at Stevenage before departing for Airbus Toulouse, France at the end of August, for four months of environmental testing to confirm it is ready for the conditions on Mars.

    More information on ExoMars: http://www.esa.int/exomars
    Credits: ESA, Airbus Defence and Space UK, ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

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  • ExoMars – Moving on Mars

    ExoMars – Moving on Mars

    The ExoMars mission will see Rosalind Franklin the rover and its surface platform Kazachok land on the Red Planet in 2021. From fine-grained soil to large boulders and slopes, the rover has to be able to move across many types of terrain, collect samples with a 2 m-long drill and analyse them with instruments in its onboard laboratory.

    This second episode about ExoMars features the challenges of leaving the surface platform, overcoming obstacles and walking on dunes.

    ESA, Roscosmos, Thales, Airbus and RUAG engineers put a full-sized model through a series of tests to fine-tune how the rover will move from its landing platform onto the martian terrain.

    Rovers on Mars have previously been caught in sand, and turning the wheels dug them deeper – just like a car stuck in mud or snow. To avoid this, Rosalind the rover has a unique locomotion mode called ‘wheel walking’.

    More information on ExoMars: http://www.esa.int/exomars

    Credits: ESA

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  • ExoMars rover science laboratory fitted

    ExoMars rover science laboratory fitted

    The ExoMars rover’s Analytical Laboratory Drawer (ALD) was integrated into the rover at Airbus, Stevenage, UK in May 2019. The video is shown at 18 times real speed; in reality the sequence of events took around 11.5 minutes.

    The ExoMars rover, named Rosalind Franklin, will be the first of its kind to both roam the Mars surface and to study it at depth. Rosalind Franklin will drill down to two metres into the surface to sample the soil, analyse its composition and search for evidence of past – and perhaps even present – life hidden underground. A miniature laboratory inside the rover – the ALD – will analyse the samples with three different instruments, with some baked in the onboard oven to release gases for analysis, a technique used to search for traces of organic compounds.

    The rover will relay its data back to Earth via the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which is already conducting its science mission from Mars orbit.

    The ExoMars programme is a joint endeavour between ESA and Roscosmos.

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    Credits: Airbus

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  • ExoMars Rover: from concept to reality

    ExoMars Rover: from concept to reality

    The second part of the ExoMars programme is ongoing.

    In Stevenage, UK, a rover is being built that will carry a drill and a suite of instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research. It will be the first mission to combine the capability to move across the surface and to study Mars at depth.

    The primary goal of the ExoMars programme is to address the question of whether life has ever existed on the red planet.

    The first part of the programme was launched in March 2016 with the Trace Gas Orbiter. The second part is planned for launch in 2020 and comprises the rover and surface science platform

    ExoMars is a joint endeavour between ESA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.

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  • ESA Euronews: Looking for life on Mars with ExoMars

    ESA Euronews: Looking for life on Mars with ExoMars

    ExoMars is the first mission to head to the Red Planet to seek signs of life, now or in the past. It’s a massive scientific and technical challenge, and Euronews meets some of the team involved in this joint ESA-Roscosmos project in this month’s edition of Space.

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  • ESA Euronews: Mit ExoMars nach dem Leben auf dem Mars suchen

    ESA Euronews: Mit ExoMars nach dem Leben auf dem Mars suchen

    Bei der ExoMars-Mission, die nach Leben auf dem roten Planeten sucht, wächst die Spannung: Denn bereits der erste Satellit dieses europäisch-russischen Projekts entdeckte viel mehr Wassereis knapp unter der Marsoberfläche, als irgendjemand erwartet hatte. Jetzt arbeiten die Ingenieure fieberhaft daran, den Rover rechtzeitig zum Start im Jahr 2020 fertigzustellen.

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  • ESA Euronews: Buscando vida en Marte con ExoMars

    ESA Euronews: Buscando vida en Marte con ExoMars

    Los científicos e ingenieros que trabajan en ExoMars lo hacen a contrarreloj para finalizar un todoterreno y una plataforma de aterrizaje que les permitirán, en 2021, explorar la superficie y el subsuelo de Marte y comprobar si hay o ha habido vida en el Planeta Rojo.
    Euronews ha viajado hasta el Reino Unido y Bélgica para hablar con los científicos e ingenieros que trabajan en ExoMars, un equipo europeo y ruso.

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  • ESA Euronews: À la recherche de la vie sur Mars avec ExoMars

    ESA Euronews: À la recherche de la vie sur Mars avec ExoMars

    Space fait le point sur l’avancée de la mission ExoMars dont le deuxième volet consistera à envoyer prochainement un rover capable de forer le sol martien à la recherche d’éventuelles traces de vie.

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  • ESA Euronews: Ψάχνετε για ζωή στον Άρη με το ExoMars

    ESA Euronews: Ψάχνετε για ζωή στον Άρη με το ExoMars

    Στη Βρετανία επιστήμονες και μηχανικοί εργάζονται για την αποστολή ExoMars, την κοινή Ευρωπαϊκή και ρωσική προσπάθεια που θα ταξιδέψει στον κόκκινο πλανήτη, ψάχνοντας για ζωή.
    Ο Μπρούνο, είναι το ρόβερ που θα πάει στον Άρη. Είναι ένα όχημα με έξι ρόδες που μπορεί να αναπτύξει ταχύτητα δύο εκατοστών το δευτερόλεπτο και μπορεί να κινηθεί ημιαυτόνομα στην επιφάνεια του πλανήτη. Τις δοκιμές κάνουν οι μηχανικοί της Airbus, που είναι υπεύθυνοι για την κατασκευή του πρώτου οχήματος που θα ψάξει για ζωή στον κόκκινο πλανήτη.

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  • ESA Euronews: Procurando vida em Marte com ExoMars

    ESA Euronews: Procurando vida em Marte com ExoMars

    À procura de vida em Marte, a Agência Espacial Europeia (ESA, na sigla em inglês) e a congénere russa Roscosmos estão a ultimar a próxima missão ExoMars, a qual vai integrar também tecnologia de origem portuguesa.
    A Euronews deslocou-se a Stevenage, a norte de Londres, no Reino Unido, onde a Airbus está a desenvolver um novo veículo com o objetivo específico de procurar sinais de vida no planeta vermelho, o “vizinho” mais próximo da Terra no Sistema Solar.

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  • Mars sample return

    Mars sample return

    Spacecraft in orbit and on Mars’s surface have made many exciting discoveries, transforming our understanding of the planet and unveiling clues to the formation of our Solar System, as well as helping us understand our home planet. The next step is to bring samples to Earth for detailed analysis in sophisticated laboratories where results can be verified independently and samples can be reanalysed as laboratory techniques continue to improve.

    Bringing Mars to Earth is no simple undertaking—it would require at least three missions from Earth and one never-been-done-before rocket launch from Mars.

    A first mission, NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover, is set to collect surface samples in pen-sized canisters as it explores the Red Planet. Up to 31 canisters will be filled and readied for a later pickup – geocaching gone interplanetary.

    In the same period, ESA’s ExoMars rover, which is also set to land on Mars in 2021, will be drilling up to two meters below the surface to search for evidence of life.

    A second mission with a small fetch rover would land nearby and retrieve the samples in a Martian search-and-rescue operation. This rover would bring the samples back to its lander and place them in a Mars Ascent Vehicle – a small rocket to launch the football-sized container into Mars orbit.

    A third launch from Earth would provide a spacecraft sent to orbit Mars and rendezvous with the sample containers. Once the samples are safely collected and loaded into an Earth entry vehicle, the spacecraft would return to Earth, release the vehicle to land in the United States, where the samples will be retrieved and placed in quarantine for detailed analysis by a team of international scientists.

    Credits: NASA/ESA

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  • ExoMars low-altitude parachute drop test

    ExoMars low-altitude parachute drop test

    The video features footage taken of the parachute deployment as seen from the ground, as well as from onboard GoPros fixed to the drop test vehicle and looking up at the parachute. The test focused on the deployment and inflation of the second main stage 35m-wide parachute, which will be the largest to fly on Mars.

    Discussing the test are Stephane Langlois, ESA ExoMars engineer, and John Underwood, principal engineer at Vorticity.

    The test was carried out by Vorticity Ltd under supervision of Thales Alenia Space France, Thales Alenia Space Italy and ESA, in Kiruna, Sweden, on 2 March 2018.

    Credits: ESA & Vorticity Ltd