The UK Space Agency has launched a competition to name a rover that is going to Mars to search for signs of life. The competition to name the rover was unveiled by ESA astronaut Tim Peake at the Farnborough International Airshow 2018.
Due to launch in 2020, the UK-built rover is part of ESA’s ExoMars mission. It will investigate how Mars has evolved and whether there may be conditions for life.
The ExoMars rover will be the first of its kind to travel across the martian surface and drill down to determine if evidence of life is buried underground, protected from the Sun’s radiation that bombards the surface of the ‘Red Planet’.