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Double Mission to Mars ( 2009 )

Rover Mass: 200kg ( 40 kg carry on load )
Orbiter: works like Mars Express and serves as a relaisstation for the Rover.

The name EXO-MARS comes from Exobiology, which will be one of the main Goals of the mission. To find extraterrestrial Life.
The Rover namend Pasteur equipped with a sophisticated suite of instruments to search systematically for the existence – past or present - of micro-biological processes will drive several km on the surface and drill up to 1,5m down the soil to analyze it.
This mobile laboratory is an essential precursor to a later Aurora Mars Sample Return Mission.

Mission Status: Study Phase nearing completion.

Picture of the Rover:





Picture of the Orbiter:



This mission will be the first mission in ESA's ambitious Aurora Program.


I was wondering why ther was no thread or section about this new mission of ESA...

[Guest_spaceffm_*]

well i won't respond to any of political stuff because it ends often in fights, i know that because i run my own big forum.


In my opinion Nasa and ESA etc.should work together to achieve our goals, the EU Member states should pay more money in the budget of ESA then Aurora could became true faster.
Remember ESA landed Huygens successful on Titan...
Remember Nasa lost 2 very important probes bound for Mars...

Even with experience you can fail and even without experience you can succeed.

Despite the financial status of ESA shoud we all not be happy that there is such a proposal? Shoud we not be all happy that so many missions are planned and not talking them down?

[gpurcell]

well i won't respond to any of political stuff because it ends often in fights, i know that because i run my own big forum.


In my opinion Nasa and ESA etc.should work together to achieve our goals, the EU Member states should pay more money in the budget of ESA then Aurora could became true faster.
Remember ESA landed Huygens successful on Titan...
Remember Nasa lost 2 very important probes bound for Mars...

Even with experience you can fail and even without experience you can succeed.

Despite the financial status of ESA shoud we all not be happy that there is such a proposal? Shoud we not be all happy that so many missions are planned and not talking them down?

Hm.

Actually, I get quite tired of viewgraph missions. I like real missions. Netlander, now that could have been an excellent first step for ESA. But for an organization which has never sucessfully delivered and landed a mission on any planetary surface other that the Earth to decide its going to jump right to a fancy rover on Mars sounds more like dreaming than a real plan.

I've seen absolutely no indication that ESA wil be funding Aurora at levels required to fulfil its aims.