Europe, Russia to search for life on Red planet
Europe and Russia have decided to launch an unmanned spacecraft to Mars. The spaceship is designed to uncover signs of past or present life on the Red Planet.
ExoMars is a two-step collaboration between Europe and Russian space agencies. The ExoMars 2016 will see an orbiter hoisted from Kazakhstan on a Russian Proton rocket on Monday. In 2012, the European Space Agency and the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos agreed to develop the so-called ExoMars program, with the objective of investigating the environment on Mars and finding out whether life has ever existed on the planet.
As published on the European Space Agency's website, two missions are planned within the ExoMars program for 2016-2018. In 2016, the ExoMars project will launch an orbital probe to Mars, followed by a landing on the Martian surface by a lander module. In 2018, a Mars rover probe is expected to explore the surface of the planet.
The orbiter will hunt for methane in the Martian atmosphere and show if it is likely to have been generated by geology or biological processes. Then in two years' time, ExoMars 2018 will send a rover to the planet bristling with cutting-edge technology.
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