Mars rover meets desert.

1 rover 🤖 2 planets 🔴🌍 100 people 👨‍🔬👩‍💻👷‍♂️ 220 metres 📏 A European rover on Earth called Charlie paves the way for @esa's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover

Some 1200 km away from the desert, a large team of planners and scientists worked around the clock at the Rover Operations Control Centre in Italy. Every day, or martian sol, they planned the route and analysed images & science data, just as they will during the real mission on the Red Planet in 2030.