Scouting the Red Planet with ExoMars

Watch the first episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission - Europe’s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.
This episode starts after a successful descent and landing on the Red Planet in 2030.
Rovers on Mars have previously been caught in loose soils, and turning the wheels dug them deeper, just like a car stuck in sand. To avoid this, Rosalind Franklin has a unique wheel-walking locomotion mode to overcome difficult terrains, as well as autonomous navigation software.
A major goal of the mission is to understand the geological context and identify minerals formed in the presence of water that could be good targets for drilling into and collecting samples for analysis.
The scientific eyes of the rover are set atop the mast on the Panoramic Camera suite, known as PanCam. From its vantage point about two metres above the ground, PanCam cameras come into play to get a whole picture of the site with high resolution imaging.
Enfys, meaning rainbow in Welsh, is an infrared spectrometer to study mineral composition. Enfys and PanCam work in synergy. PanCam is used to obtain colour, visual information of what lies around the rover. Enfys’ job is to inform scientists what the minerals are.
Rosalind Franklin will be the first rover to reach a depth of up to two metres deep below the surface, acquiring samples that have been protected from surface radiation and extreme temperatures.
The mission will serve to demonstrate key technologies that Europe needs to master for future planetary exploration missions.
This episode shows the spacecraft, the rover and martian landscapes are as true to reality as possible for a simulation.
Check ESA’s ExoMars website and our frequently asked questions for the latest updates.
Credits:
Production: Mlabspace for ESA
3D animation: ESA/Mlabspace
Video footage: ESA/NASA, Shutterstock
Music composed by Valentin Joudrier
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[@MioDenSmarta.]

The European Space Agency is so good! ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you ESA!

[@Anna33888]

I see a planet that is certainly peaceful! ESA💙🖌

[@ErikLaan]

Cant wait to see this rover go to Mars!

[@Fiore402]

È già su Marte,infatti,lo stiamo guardando in questo video...👍📹😅

[@mariadaluzmoutinho5701]

Sucesso nesta aventura ...marciana e do fascinante planeta vermelho!!

[@user-Amjad5g]

شي جميل ومركبه رائعه تحياتي لوكاله الاوربيه من الشرق الاوسط❤❤ بحبكم

[@Neptoons-]

Best of luck for the rover ESA!

[@Ph33NIXx]

Interesting, I wonder how the motors is going to fare with the wear and tear of the martian dust.

[@ktkrelaxedscience]

Automatic thumbs up. 🥰

[@ICESat-2]

What a graceful machine 💕🥰🥰

[@jlvfr]

The rover can dance!

[@lukakvaternik2436]

Well I guess the other rovers on Mars will soon get another friend

[@vimalramachandran]

Each rover is in a different location

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

@@vimalramachandran Ye. But now thinking of it since the sample return drones are supposed to also have wheels, wouldn't that make them qualify as "rovers"?

[@vimalramachandran]

@@ImieNazwiskoOK I was talking about missions until now. In the future, yes, the Mars Sample Return program intends to land multiple spacecraft in the same location as Perseverance, which is Jezero Crater. The sample-collecting helicopters, which are a part of that mission, will have wheels but will still be helicopters and not rovers. It is important to note that there are helicopters on Earth with wheels, but that does not make them cars.

[@farhangfaalnoori3282]

perfect design

[@kevinh22]

It's a great mission, thank you ESA!

[@SebastianWellsTL]

Epic! 😎

[@Luckyamor]

Go ahead ESA ❤

[@dissaid]

🙏🙏🙏

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Didn't know about it having this sort of mobility. Is there any info on the new landing system for it? (and I hope it doesn't suffer any issues from being in storage for long time like Galileo)

[@aidrianyoutube]

I would imagine they just make an inhouse landing system, probably somewhat based upon the same lander that Russia was supposed to deliver.

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Looking at other Mars rovers I notice that all previous Mars rovers had pretty much the same sort of suspension. Here the wheels are more directly connected to the body, what is the impact of it on the effectiveness of the suspension?

[@kimienick6721]

❤❤❤

[@user-dd7ir4xo3x]

long live ESA

[@ChroniclogicalJeff]

I'm 77% sure I saw Marvin the Martian on the horizon. 🖖👽

[@fusola9612]

I saw Matt Damon.

[@Tinman_56]

We've discovered life on Mars! All Martians are robots😅😊

[@MacDaddy8200]

[@user-dd7ir4xo3x]

I want to be the first man to go to Mars !

[@-disaster-dimension-]

I'd like to see them send humanoid robots first. Not even full size ones. Might not be the most practical, but it'd be instantly more interesting to see something walking around up there. It'll be a long time before they're ready to send humans.

[@hamzahkhan8952]

just become an astronaut within 2 decades and yoou might go

[@RougeCheeseit]

Opportunity 2.0?

[@javierfrutis3938]

I'm one eye blind and the captions are terrible small...

[@holographicman]

Yes I had a hard time reading it.

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

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[@wodclerc]

Ok, but conveniently side-stepping an important issue here: the delivery. Is it already clear how we will get the rover to Mars in the first place?

[@phoenics2465]

With a rocket duh

[@wodclerc]

Great, thanks, I was thinking of a paper plane. And will that be... An American one? A Chinese one? Probably not a Russian one? What's the launch window being targeted?

[@-disaster-dimension-]

Most likely crash landing, DOA.

[@phoenics2465]

Dunno the launch window. And I doubt its going to be a russian rocket. I suspect falcon heavy or if esa gets the A6 ready then itll be the A6. Or maybe a Vega@@wodclerc

[@theoschreiner2468]

@@phoenics2465vega is not near powerful enough, it's probably gonna be an ariane 6

[@deadlygameryt6539]

Is this is a singer name ? why her on its 0:59

[@bbartky]

No. Rosalind Franklin was a very famous British scientist. She made huge contributions to the understanding of the structure of DNA.

[@vimalramachandran]

​@@bbartkyShe wasn't very famous. In fact, she was underappreciated, and that's why they chose her name for this mission.

[@sjcwoor]

A scientist who did work to, amoungst other things, determine DNA structure at a molectular level. I do know who you might be getting Rosalind Franklin confused with though. Perhaps the popular US R&B and soul singer Aretha Franklin.

[@vimalramachandran]

When is it launching after all the delays?

[@aidrianyoutube]

It says in the description that it will land in 2030.

[@vimalramachandran]

The problem with ESA is that every mission takes a long time to arrive at their destinations with complicated gravity assist maneuvers and what not.

[@aidrianyoutube]

@@vimalramachandran True, and their original plan was delayed because of Russia's attack on Ukraine. Russia was supposed to deliver the lander, but thats out of the question now.

[@Sh1matta]

Solar panel is bad choice because dust storm.

[@lukakvaternik2436]

There isnt really a choice

[@hamzahkhan8952]

you could use an RTG but that would be more expensive, heavy and complex

[@lukakvaternik2436]

Yes RTG are really good but I believe they dont use them because if a launch fails it would spread harmful materials on Earth or Mars

[@ZorcoLP]

@@lukakvaternik2436 Nasa Rover has a small build in nuclear plant for example.

[@Singulut]

@@ZorcoLP No, the RTG Nasa uses works more like a battery than a Power plant. It uses decaying Plutonium.

[@Aaron-xr9sh]

2030 are U kidding ?

[@aidrianyoutube]

Thats what a small budget gives you sadly.

[@lolrift1378]

لماذا حتى يوجد غلاف جوي وغيوم ...يالها من أحلام صعبة المنال

[@Skukkix23]

looks goofy