[2][3][4] This analyser is part of the science payload on board the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover,[5] tasked to search for biosignatures and biomarkers on Mars.
ADRON-RM is a near copy of ADRO-EM on the stationary ExoMars 2020 surface platform and the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) neutron detector on board NASA's Curiosity rover, all designed by Igor Mitrofanov from the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI).
It will be used in combination with WISDOM instrument (a ground-penetrating radar) to study the subsurface beneath the rover and to search for optimal sites for drilling and sample collection.
The Principal Investigator is Igor Mitrofanov from the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI).
The data will be obtained as routine and passive measurements, which will not be saved but will be immediately transmitted from the instrument to the rover computer.