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Mars Surveyor 2001

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 Lander, were both lost, NASA's "better, faster, cheaper" exploration philosophy was re-evaluated, with a particular eye on the two 2001 project probes. As a result, the mission, along with the launch of its 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 stored since, the nearly-completed lander component was eventually reused to fly the Phoenix mission,[1] which launched in August 2007 and landed successfully on Mars in May 2008.

Spacecraft properties

Mars Atmospheric Acquisition and Compression (MAAC): to selectively absorb and compress carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere; It might absorb ~ 4g CO2 over 1 to 3 nights, then release it on being heated.

Oxygen Generator Subsystem (OGS): to produce propellant-grade, pure oxygen; a solid-oxide oxygen generator produces oxygen by electrolyzing CO2 at elevated temperatures (750 °C).

zirconia

Mars Array Technology Experiment (MATE): to measure the spectrum at the Mars surface and to test several advanced solar cells;

photovoltaic

Dust Accumulation and Repulsion Test (DART): to investigate the properties of dust and to test techniques (e.g. electrostatic repulsion) to mitigate the settling of dust on to solar arrays;

Mars Thermal Environment & Radiator Characterization (MTERC): to measure the night sky temperature and to demonstrate the performance of high and low emissivity radiators

List of missions to Mars

Mars Express

Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment

. Retrieved February 4, 2010.

"NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details"

. Retrieved February 4, 2010.

"2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft"

. Retrieved February 4, 2010.

"Mars Surveyor 2001"

. Retrieved January 27, 2014.

"NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region on Mars"

NSSDC Master Catalog entry

Mars Surveyor 2001 rover

(papers describing mission and experiments) (11 M pdf)

Workshop on Mars 2001: Integrated Science in Preparation for Sample Return and Human Exploration

summary, presented at Lunar and Planetary Science XXX, Houston, TX (1999).

MIP Experiment