#ExoMars parachute 🪂 high-altitude drop test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWqlh6T-PFk&t=6s

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#ExoMars descent module drop test. A system installed in all four legs detects when the spacecraft approaches the surface and triggers the shutdown of the descent engines after a soft landing https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/01/Legs_made_for_a_Mars_landing

On 7 July 2025 a high-altitude balloon carried a test capsule to an altitude of 29 kilometers to test the #parachute 🪂 under near-space conditions https://sscspace.com/news/esa-testing-martian-parachutes-from-the-edge-of-space/

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The #Rosalind rover has a 2-meter 📏 drill to collect deeper samples than any previous #Mars 🔴 mission, ground-penetrating radar to see up to 3 meters and a neutron spectrometer to locate promising underground water-rich 💧 deposits https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/exomars-rover

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