FOUR SITES VIE FOR EUROPEAN EXOMARS LANDING (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, October 01, 2014, 15:48

The European Space Agency has identified the four locations on Mars where it could send a rover in 2018.

They are all ancient terrains where satellite evidence has suggested water was present for prolonged periods.

Esa's ExoMars vehicle will be the first surface rover sent specifically to search for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet.

Previous such robots have concentrated on determining merely whether the world would have been habitable.

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