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- NASA confirms support for the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Rosalind Franklin rover to search Mars for life.
- ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher announced this at a Bremen ministerial meeting amid budget cuts by Trump administration.
- The rover, slated for 2020, was delayed by technical issues after ESA ended cooperation with Russia amid Ukraine invasion.
- NASA will provide components, including a radioisotope heater and a science instrument to analyze Martian samples.
