Rosalind Franklin’s Earth twin salutes its fellow rovers to ramp up for ExoMars 2022 mission

06 May 2021

The ground test model (GTM) of the Rosalind Franklin rover for the upcoming ExoMars mission will soon leave Thales Alenia Space’s Turin plant for a short trip to the Rover Operational Control Center (ROCC), in Altec. This model will now be put through its paces on the ROCC’s Mars Terrain Simulator to make sure the rover is ready for its critical mission.

Digging deep into the Martian sub-surface to detect signs of life

19 Aug 2019

While ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is sniffing the Martian atmosphere, the ExoMars 2020 Rover will analyse the deepest-ever subsurface soil samples to find any forms of life on the Red Planet.