Mars Surveyor 2001
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The Mars Surveyor 2001 project was a multi-part Mars exploration mission intended as a follow-up to Mars Surveyor '98. After the two probes of the 1998 project, Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lan
Artworks of the orbiter (left) and surface elements (right) that would have been used in the mission
Mars Odyssey illustration "On a Trip to Cirrus Minor"
Artwork of the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander and the rover Marie Curie. The lander's design was based on the Mars Surveyor 98 lander, Mars Polar Lander, and the rover's design was based on Sojourner
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2001 Mars Odyssey
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2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 mil
Mars Surveyor 2001
…lander and rover, were canceled in May 2000, but the decision was made to continue development with its orbiter counterpart. The orbiter launched as 2001 Mars Odyssey in April 2001, in a mission independent of the Mars Surveyor project, and reached Mars in October 2001. After being placed in a cleanroom in 2001 and…
Summary of Mars Odyssey mission start
The spacecraft encapsulated in Delta II rocket fairing
MARIE hardware, designed to measure radiation