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Rosalind Franklin (ExoMars)

Overview

Rosalind Franklin, the European Space Agency's ExoMars rover, named for a pioneering DNA researcher, is part of a series of missions designed to study the potential for past and current life on Mars. The rover will be the first mission to combine capability to move across the surface and study it at depth, collecting samples with a drill down to a depth of 2m.

RAL Space involvement

RAL Space is responsible for the design, analysis and test of the electronics box for Enfys - an IR reflectance spectrometer, and the Raman Laser Spectrometer (RLS)
Focus
Planetary science and exploration
Earliest Launch Date
2028
Partners
ESA, University of Aberystwyth University, University of Leicester, MSSL, Qioptiq Ltd

An artist's depiction of the Rosalind Franklin rover, which Europe plans to place on the Martian surface in March 2021. (Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab)

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