James May, at the opening of his special exhibit, at the London Classic Car Show. 'Cars that Changed the World'. James was explaining why he chose the Bruno Mars Rover, which is predicted to land on the Red Planet in 2018.
James Daniel May (born 16 January 1963) is a British television presenter and journalist. He is the co-presenter of the motoring programme Top Gear, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. May has presented other programmes on themes including science and technology, toys, wine culture, and the plight of manliness in modern times. He wrote a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph's motoring section. The ExoMars rover is a planned robotic Mars rover, part of the international ExoMars mission led by the European Space Agency. The latest plan is to have a Russian launch vehicle, carrier module and lander deliver ESA's rover to Mars's surface in 2018. Once safely landed on the Martian surface the solar powered rover would begin a six-month (218-sol) mission to search for the existence of past or present life on Mars. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, launched two years earlier in 2016, will operate as the rover's data-relay satellite.
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