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Long-Range Rovers for Mars Exploration and Sample Return
Technical Paper
2001-01-2138
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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This paper discusses long-range rovers to be flown as part of NASA’s newly reformulated Mars Exploration Program (MEP). These rovers are currently scheduled for launch first in 2007 as part of a joint science and technology mission, and then again in 2011 as part of a planned Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. These rovers are characterized by substantially longer range capability than their predecessors in the 1997 Mars Pathfinder and 2003 Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions. Topics addressed in this paper include the rover mission objectives, key design features, and technologies.
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Parrish, J., "Long-Range Rovers for Mars Exploration and Sample Return," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-2138, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-2138.Also In
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