Europe aims lone rover for Mars

Posted on: Aug. 26th, 2005 || Source: news.bbc.co.uk | E-mail Article | Print Article

Europe has fixed on a concept for its next mission to land on the Red Planet. It aims to send a single robot rover to the Martian surface along with another, stationary, science package.

The European Space Agency (Esa) had also been considering a mission concept from the British team behind Beagle 2, but this is no longer on the table.

However, the Beagle team could yet see their science instruments, or ones derived from them, carried on the 580-million-euro mobile laboratory.

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