There are few things better than the smell of freshly baked bread from the oven, this is because molecules in the bread disperse in the heat to reach your nose. […]
ExoMars
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Landing Site Selected For UK ExoMars Rover Rosalind Franklin
A group of scientists and engineers in Leicester has recommended Oxia Planum as the best landing site for the British-built Mars rover “Rosalind Franklin.”
Posted inPlanetary Protection & Biosafety, Press Release
Cleaning ExoMars 2020 Rover For Mars
A ground penetrating radar antenna for ESA’s ExoMars 2020 rover being pre-cleaned in an ultra-cleanroom environment in preparation for its sterilisation process, in an effort to prevent terrestrial microbes coming […]
Posted inMars, Planetary Protection & Biosafety
Planetary Protection and ExoMars Payload Integration
Like surgeons in an operating room, the technicians work gowned and masked in ESA’s ultraclean microbiology laboratory, ensuring a high-tech sensor will not contaminate the Red Planet with terrestrial microbes. […]
Posted inMars
ExoMars Can Detect Life That Survives Simulated Environment on Mars
An instrument similar to those used on Earth by art detectives and to sense explosives at airports will be taken into space for the first time by ExoMars, the European […]