Instruments picked for Mars Surveyor 2001 missions

NASA's two planned missions to Mars for the 2001 launch opportunity will use a tougher version of the Mars Pathfinder Sojourner rover to move "tens of miles" across the surface, a camera to image the landing site during descent, and a thermal imager to map surface mineralogy from orbit. The agency's...

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