The Mars Surveyor Program Lander Mission
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The Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR) project has been established to deliver and emplace a network of small landers on Mars. A key requisite for this mission is the development of a low cost, simple, robust delivery system for payloads to the Martian surface.
The objective of the Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR) Network Mission is to establish a global network of small science stations on the surface of Mars to operate concurrently over a minimum of one martian year.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the pertinent mission design issues associated with MESUR. Some details are given on the mission aspects of the network architecture studies. In addition, there is a description of the design trades that have been performed for pathfinder and the resulting reference mission design.
The Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR) mission is the next logical evolutionary step in the thirty year program of Mars exploration. The purpose of this mission is to perform long duration in situ scientific measurements of the Martian environment at a number of globally distributed sites.