Rosalind Franklin
(ExoMars Rover)
(Mars rover in development for 2028 launch)
The Rosalind Franklin is a European Space Agency (ESA) Mars rover to be
launched in 2028 or later.
The name is in honor of an English scientist, an older name being
the ExoMars Rover.
The rover was originally a portion of the ExoMars program, a
collaboration with Roscosmos which ceased in 2022, and as
recently as early 2022, the rover was scheduled for a September
2022 launch, a June 2023 landing and seven months of operation on
Mars. The rover-mission was delayed to develop a new means of
taking it to Mars and current hopes are a NASA launch in Fall 2028,
for a 2030 landing.
Instruments:
- PanCam - Panoramic Camera.
- ISEM - Infrared Spectrometer for ExoMars.
- WISDOM - Water Ice Subsurface Deposits Observation on Mars.
- Adron-RM - Autonomous Detector of Radiation of Neutrons Onboard Rover at Mars.
- CLUPI - Close-Up Imager.
- Ma_MISS - Mars Multispectral Imager for Subsurface Studies.
- MicrOmega-IR - infrared "micro observatory", a microscope.
- RLS - Raman Laser Spectrometer.
- MOMA - Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer.
With the 6-year delay, this instrument-list might be revised.
Some instruments previously listed or considered:
- Mars-XRD - Mars X-ray Diffractometer
- Urey - Mars organic and oxidant detector.
- MIMOS-II - Miniaturised Mössbauer Spectrometer.
- LMC - Life Marker Chip.
- MIMA - Mars Infrared Mapper.
(Mars,probe,spacecraft,ESA,construction)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin_(rover)
https://exploration.esa.int/web/mars/-/45084-exomars-rover
https://exploration.esa.int/web/mars/-/45103-rover-instruments
https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/ESA_to_search_for_life_on_Mars_with_ExoMars_Rosalind_Franklin_mission
https://spacenews.com/esa-awards-contract-to-thales-alenia-space-to-restart-exomars/
https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/ESA_and_NASA_join_forces_to_land_Europe_s_rover_on_Mars
https://www.planetary.org/articles/europe-goes-to-mars
Referenced by pages:
ExoMars
Mars
Index