Rosalind Franklin Program
ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover mission is a planned ExoMars surface mission to search for signs of past or present life beneath Mars’s surface. The rover will drill and analyse subsurface samples at Oxia Planum; NASA is supplying the launch service, lander descent propulsion, radioisotope heater units, and components of the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer for the late-2028 mission.
Identity
- Aliases
- Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin RoverExoMars Rosalind FranklinExoMars Rover
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Rosalind Franklin Program
- Status
- planned
- Types
- explorationsciencedevelopment
Details
- Description
- ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover mission is a planned ExoMars surface mission to search for signs of past or present life beneath Mars’s surface. The rover will drill and analyse subsurface samples at Oxia Planum; NASA is supplying the launch service, lander descent propulsion, radioisotope heater units, and components of the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer for the late-2028 mission.
- Leads
- Parent Program
- Participants
- Start Date
- 2028
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 13:16:13 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 13:16:13 UTC