From Almeria to Mars: Tabernas Desert Doubles as the Red Planet for ESA's Rover Landing Tests
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The European mission ExoMars, which will travel to the 'red planet' in search of evidence showing possible past life with the robotic vehicle Rosalind Franklin, has used the desert of Tabernas (Almería) as a test bench to simulate the mission on real ground through the rover 'Charlie'.Continue reading...
The Tabernas Desert is once again becoming a small Martian laboratory this Thursday. In this Almeria landscape, recognized for its geological and mineralogical similarities with the surface of Mars, the ExoMars mission team has tested the prototype rover 'Charlie', reproducing the operations that in a few years will have to execute the Rosalind Franklin when it arrives on the red planet.
The field team simply loaded the instructions on Charlie and let the vehicle move and operate on its own.
The European Space Agency and Airbus test in Tabernas a prototype of the rover, controlled from Turin, which will be sent to the Martian surface in 2028
In the desert of Tabernacles in Spain, European teams are testing a prototype of the future ‘rove' Rosalind Franklin. The mission should look for signs of past or present life on Mars and is scheduled to arrive on the red planet in 2030.
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