Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission – Europe’s bold exploration journey to seek for previous and current indicators of life on Mars.
This episode begins with Rosalind looking for traces of life beneath the martian floor utilizing a floor penetrating radar and a set of cameras.
The rover will dig, acquire, and examine the chemical composition of fabric collected by a drill. Rosalind Franklin would be the first rover to achieve a depth of as much as two metres deep beneath the floor, buying samples which have been shielded from floor radiation and excessive temperatures.
Rosalind Franklin makes use of the WISDOM radar to assist scientists on Earth determine the place to drill. Moreover figuring out essentially the most promising targets for sampling, WISDOM will assist the rover keep away from potential hazards, such because the presence of buried rocks that might injury the drill.
The scientific eyes of the rover are set on the Panoramic Digital camera suite referred to as PanCam. The Shut-UP Imager (CLUPI) sits on the facet of the drill field, a digital camera designed to amass high-resolution, color, close-up photographs of outcrops, rocks and soils. PanCam and CLUPI will assist scientists discover essentially the most promising spots to drill. These devices can even examine very high-quality outcrop particulars and picture drill samples earlier than they’re despatched into the rover’s laboratory.
After the rover retracts its drill, the pattern is in a particular chamber on the tip. Beneath the lowered martian gravity (38% of Earth’s), the fabric drops onto a particular “hand” that the rover can lengthen to the entrance to gather drill samples.
The mission will serve to reveal key applied sciences that Europe must grasp for future planetary exploration missions.
The ExoMars rover sequence present the rover and martian landscapes as true to actuality as attainable for a simulation.
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Credit: ESA
Manufacturing: Mlabspace for ESA
3D animation: ESA/Mlabspace
Music composed by Valentin Joudrier
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