Rover that will search for life on Mars named after Rosalind Franklin
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Katrina Krämer2019-02-07T14:32:00
Franklin rover will drill into red planet’s surface to look for evidence of life
The European–Russian rover that will search for life on Mars has been named after British chemist and DNA double helix co-discoverer Rosalind Franklin. Franklin’s name was chosen from over 36,000 suggestions submitted by citizens from the European Space Agency’s 22 member states. In 1952, the x-ray crystallographer took an image nicknamed Photo 51 that was crucial evidence in the discovery that DNA has a double helix structure.