An audacious mission to hunt for evidence of past life on Mars just came to a screeching halt before it even made it to launch. A press release issued by the European Space Agency on Thursday, March 17 reveals the agency has suspended the second leg of its ExoMars mission. The mission was supposed to launch in September, and involve a Roscosmos-operated (Russia’s space agency) lander delivering an ESA rover named Rosalind Franklin to the surface of Mars — but the invasion of Ukraine put the mission in jeopardy.
