A University of Stirling scientist has been chosen to join the team piloting the European Space Agency’s Mars rover when it launches next year, on its mission to find life on the Red Planet.Dr Christian Schröder is one of five Guest Investigators, joining five Interdisciplinary Scientists from Europe, Russia and Canada, who will play a leading role in commanding the European-Russian ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover as it launches in September 2022.Once it lands at the selected site of Oxia Planum on Mars in June 2023, the rover will spend a minimum of 211 ‘sols’ (Martian days), equivalent to 230 Earth days, searching for organic carbon molecules that could tell us whether there was ever life on Mars.The Rosalind Franklin rover is the first
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