Detail View: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection: 1998 Mars Polar Lander
|
Title:
|
1998 Mars Polar Lander
|
|
Creator:
|
NASA/JPL-Caltech
|
|
Description:
|
The Mars Surveyor '98 Polar Lander is shown during recent deployment and testing of its surface solar panels. The spacecraft will travel 10 months from Earth to Mars to land near the southern polar cap in December 1999 and carry out a three- month mission to search for traces of subsurface water in this frozen, layered terrain. The lander carries three scientific packages: the Mars descent imager, furnished by Malin Space Science Systems, Inc., which will view the landing site at increasingly higher resolution; the atmospheric lidar experiment, provided by Russia's Space Research Institute, which will measure the presence and height of atmospheric hazes, along with a miniature microphone provided by The Planetary Society, to record the sounds of Mars; and the Mars Volatile and Climate Surveyor science package. The mission is part of NASA's Mars Surveyor program, a sustained program of robotic exploration of the red planet, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. Lockheed Martin Astronautics is NASA's industrial partner in the mission. Photo copyright 1998, Lockheed Martin #####
|
|
Date:
|
5/27/98
|
|
MediaType:
|
Image
|
|
Year:
|
1998
|
|
Contributor:
|
JPL Archives
|
|
What:
|
Mars
|
|
What:
|
Surveyor
|
|
What:
|
Polar
|
|
What:
|
Earth
|
|
What:
|
Descent Imager
|
|
Where:
|
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
|