The Aurora programme was a human spaceflight programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) established in 2001. The objective was to formulate and then to implement a European long-term plan for exploration of the Solar System using robotic spacecraft and human spaceflight to investigate bodies holding promise for traces of life beyond the Earth.
This space art, titled The Next Stop, was selected by the ESA when discussing its Aurora program.
ExoMars rover model, renamed Rosalind Franklin rover (for the mid- to late 2020s launch)
ExoMars launches in 2016
ExoMars is an astrobiology programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian space agency (Roscosmos).
Artist's illustration of ExoMars's Trace Gas Orbiter (left), Schiaparelli lander (middle), and rover (right)
Concept of MAX-C rover
ExoMars rover at exhibit in Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany (2009)
ExoMars rover at MAKS-2021