ESA - ExoMars

ESA title

The mission

The ExoMars programme comprises two missions: the first – the Trace Gas Orbiter – launched in 2016 while the second, carrying the Rosalind Franklin rover, will target launch in 2028. Together they will address the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars.

1st European rover
2 m rover drill depth
70m/sol driving on Mars

ExoMars

Newfound frost atop Olympus Mons

Science & Exploration

Frosty volcanoes discovered in Mars’s tropics

10/06/2024 30825 views 53 likes

Daniel Neuenschwander and Nicola Fox sign agreement on ExoMars

Science & Exploration

ESA and NASA join forces to land Europe’s rover on Mars

16/05/2024 1214 views 6 likes

Oxia Planum map flyover

Science & Exploration

Best geological map for a European rover on Mars

26/03/2024 3812 views 18 likes

Mars during the 2023 solar conjunction

Enabling & Support

Spacecraft fall silent as Mars disappears behind the Sun

17/11/2023 6708 views 124 likes

Green glow in the martian night

Science & Exploration

A green glow in the martian night

10/11/2023 10412 views 105 likes

Press Release N° 9–2022

ExoMars suspended

As an intergovernmental organisation mandated to develop and implement space programmes in full respect with European values, we deeply deplore the human casualties and tragic consequences of the aggression towards Ukraine. While recognising the impact on scientific exploration of space, ESA is fully aligned with the sanctions imposed on Russia by its Member States.

17/03/2022 44911 views

More items

Story
Science & Exploration
Red Mars, blue Mars: through the eye of a Mars-orbiting camera

17/03/2023 2772 views 23 likes
Read

Recommended

ExoMars rover

Science & Exploration

ExoMars Factsheet

26121 views 101 likes

Meet Mars

Science & Exploration

Meet Mars

7074 views 24 likes

More

About ExoMars

What is ExoMars? Why are we going to Mars?

Mars and methane

Meet Mars What is a trace gas? The methane mystery

ExoMars 2016

ExoMars Factsheet ExoMars 2016 FAQs Trace Gas Orbiter instruments Schiaparelli's instruments How ExoMars 2016 got to Mars Schiaparelli's landing TGO's orbit around Mars Planetary protection

ExoMars 2022

How big is the mission? ExoMars rover Moving on Mars Landing site

Multimedia

ExoMars images ExoMars videos Exhibition panels

Follow ExoMars

@ESA_ExoMars @ESA_TGO ExoMars on YouTube