{"id":798599,"date":"2025-10-03T03:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=798599"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:44:31","slug":"esa-sample-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=798599","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Sample processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>The intricate mechanisms of the most sophisticated laboratory on Mars are revealed in Episode 4 of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin\u00a0series, called \u201cSample processing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rosalind Franklin rover\u2019s drill has a maximum reach of two metres \u2013 deeper than any other mission has ever attempted on the Red Planet. This depth allows access to well-preserved organic material from four billion years ago, when conditions on the surface of Mars were more like those on infant Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After receiving a sample from the drill, Rosalind\u2019s laboratory must prepare the sample to make a detailed study of its mineral and chemical composition. The rover\u2019s Analytical Laboratory Drawer (ALD) mechanisms execute a pre-programmed choreography of sample manipulations to make sure that the instruments can do their job.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission is part of Europe\u2019s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the latest mission updates, visit ESA\u2019s\u00a0ExoMars website\u00a0and our\u00a0FAQ section.<\/p>\n<p>Access the related broadcast quality footage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sample processing | ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission (episode 4)\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuh8FWxoNwA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/10\/Sample_processing?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intricate mechanisms of the most sophisticated laboratory on Mars are revealed in Episode 4 of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin\u00a0series, called \u201cSample processing.\u201d\u00a0 The Rosalind Franklin rover\u2019s drill has a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/798600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}