2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags: European Space Agency (ESA)

THE EXOMARS PROGRAMME

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Topics covered: All about the ExoMars programme

The ExoMars programme is expected to launch sometime in between July 26-August 13, 2020.

Mars 2020 will land on Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021.
ExoMars programme is a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos.
The programme’s Rosalind Franklin rover will primarily search for the existence of alien life on the red planet.
NASA has also planned to launch its Mars 2020 rover next year sometime in July.

ExoMars programme’s Rosalind Franklin rover will primarily search for the existence of life on the neighbouring planet.
Rosalind Franklin rover recently got equipped with a high-tech camera, PanCam, that will help it track the locations where there can be pieces of evidence of past or existing life.
The PanCam consists of three cameras, two wide-angle devices that takes panoramic images, and a filter wheel that enables them to image in 12 different wavelengths.
There is also a high-resolution camera that takes further images in full color.
The PanCam, with its stereo and high-resolution cameras, will be providing detailed views of geologically interesting features in visible and near-infrared wavelengths.

NASA has incorporated the bit carousel containing all of the tools the coring drill uses to sample the Martian surface into the Mars 2020 rover.
It is a mechanism that will play a key role in the acquisition, containment and eventual return to Earth of humanity’s first samples from another planet.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space.
ESA is an international organisation with 22 Member States.
ESA’s programmes are designed to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to develop satellite-based technologies and services, and to promote European industries.
Its headquarters are in Paris which is where policies and programmes are decided.

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