64K views · 1.5K reactions | Could there be life on Mars? Europe's ExoMars orbiter launched today to find out. | Popular Science | Facebook

29K views · 653 reactions | The second #ExoMars mission, scheduled for launch to the Red Planet in 2022, is taking advantage of the extra time to upgrade some of the rover’s instruments and get ready for the next parachute high-altitude drop tests  https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/ExoMars/ExoMars_rover_upgrades_and_parachute_tests | ESA - European Space Agency | Facebook

6.8K views · 136 reactions | Nearly bathtime! The Analytical Laboratory Drawer lifted and ready to be integrated into the bathtub of ESA - European Space Agency's ExoMars rover at Airbus in Stevenage.  | Airbus Space | Facebook

The ExoMars rover’s Analytical Laboratory Drawer (ALD) was integrated into the rover at Airbus, Stevenage, UK in May 2019. The video is shown at 18 times real speed; in reality the sequence of events took around 11.5 minutes. The ExoMars rover, named Rosalind Franklin, will be the first of its kind to both roam the Mars surface and to study it at depth. Rosalind Franklin will drill down to two metres into the surface to sample the soil, analyse its composition and search for evidence of past – a