ExoMars

ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is a two-part Martian astrobiology project to search for evidence of life on Mars, a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian space agency Roscosmos. The first part, launched in 2016, placed a trace gas research and communication satellite into Mars orbit and released a stationary experimental lander (which crashed). The second part is planned to launch in 2020, and to land a rover on the surface, supporting a science mission that is expected to last into 2022 or beyond.[1][2][3]
ExoMars goals are to search for signs of past and present life on Mars,[4] investigate how the Martian water and geochemical environment varies, investigate atmospheric trace gases and their sources and by doing so demonstrate the technologies for a future Mars sample return mission.[5] The mission will search for biosignatures of Martian life, past or present, employing several spacecraft elements to be sent to Mars on two launches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoMars 

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars 

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