CLUPI

Close-UP Imager (CLUPI)
OperatorEuropean Space Agency
ManufacturerTASiCH
Instrument typeVisible light camera
FunctionClose-up HD imaging ≥ 7 months[1]
Began operationsPlanned: 2030
WebsiteExoMars Rover Instrument Suite
Properties
Mass932 g
Dimensions170 × 80 × 100 mm
Power consumption15 W
Host spacecraft
SpacecraftRosalind Frankling rover
OperatorESA
Launch dateNET 2028

CLUPI (Close-Up Imager) is a miniaturized camera system on board the planned European Space Agency Rosalind Franklin rover. CLUPI has been designed to acquire high-resolution close-up images in colour of soils, outcrops, rocks, drill fines and drill core samples,[2] as well as and the search for potential biosignature structures and patterns.[3] This camera assembly is part of the science payload on board the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover,[4] tasked to search for biosignatures and biomarkers on Mars. The rover is planned to be launched not earlier than 2028 and land on Mars in 2029.

  1. ^ Vago, Jorge L.; et al. (July 2017). "Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover". Astrobiology. 17 (6–7): 471–510. Bibcode:2017AsBio..17..471V. doi:10.1089/ast.2016.1533. PMC 5685153. PMID 31067287.
  2. ^ The ExoMars Rover Instrument Suite: CLUPI - Close-UP Imager. ESA. Accessed 30 July 2018.
  3. ^ "The Close-Up Imager Onboard the ESA ExoMars Rover: Objectives, Description, Operations, and Science Validation Activities". Josset J.-L., et al., Astrobiology. July 2017, 17(6-7), 595-611. doi:10.1089/ast.2016.1546
  4. ^ Howell, Elizabeth (July 24, 2018). "ExoMars: Searching for Life on Mars". Space.com. Retrieved March 13, 2020.