Russia was not taken to Mars: the first European rover will deliver another device to the planet (photo)

In particular, with a drilling installation, which will allow to assemble samples at a depth of 2 meters below the surface of the red planet. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Rosalind Franklin Marmore will go to space on board a launch vehicle that NASA will choose. The US Space Agency is now an ECA partner in the implementation of Exomars mission.

The rover must arrive on the Red Planet in 2030 and land with the help of a planting platform on a plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars, where signs of the existence of liquid water on the surface of the planet in the distant past were revealed. Initially, the landing platform for the rosalind Franklin rosoline was to provide the Russian Space Agency "Roscosmos". Also, the first in history, the European Marmore had to fly to Mars on a Russian rocket.

But after the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in 2022, the ECA terminated all relations with Russia, including within the Examars project. Last year, Eka concluded an agreement with NASA to implement this mission, which was initially planned for 2020. Now it became known that for the development of a landing module for Rosalind Franklin, Eka has chosen Airbus. The cost of creating this platform is estimated at about $ 194 million.

Airbus will create a landing module that contains a boarding platform and a motor installation that will help slow down the rosalind Franklin rover when landing on Mars. The European rover will help to find out not only whether life was on Mars or may still exist in his bowels, but also help you get more information about the geological history of the planet. As focus has already written, scientists sent beans in orbit and prepared a Japanese dish.