“We’ve got a dirty great drill on the front of our rover”

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The ExoMars Rover is equipped with a 2 metre drill, a microscope, ground-penetrating radar and an on-board laboratory. It is scheduled to land on Mars and search for life in 2021. Long: The ExoMars Rover is the most sophisticated life-detection machine ever built for a mission to Mars. The European and Russian space agencies will launch it to the Red Planet in 2020. Mission engineers and scientists show and tell Monica Grady how it’s equipped to find signs of life under the Martian surface. First stop: the Mars Yard at Airbus in Stevenage….. Image: Monica Grady with the ExoMarsRover. Credit: Andrew Luck-Baker, BBC