Russia was supposed to provide the landing platform, but it's no longer part of the ExoMars program.
and surface since 2017. ESA will put the plan in front of delegates of its 22 member states at a ministerial conference in November.
"We will have to wait if the [member states] decide to go forward with the project," Parker said."This concept is now proposed as part of the director general's package within [ESA's] exploration program for decision at the ministerial [conference]." The European science community fully backs the plan, ESA's director general Josef Aschbacher said in the news conference, as no other current or planned Mars mission has the capability to retrieve samples from so deep underground. In those hidden soil layers, chances are highest for the survival of organic compounds related to past microbial life.
"It is still the most advanced and interesting science in the search of life on Mars," Aschbacher said."[The ExoMars rover] will be the only instrument with a drill that goes down up to 2 meters into the surface that would have this capability of searching for microbial life on Mars. There is no other similar mission planned."
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