Mission Artwork

Mars Multi-Scout Landers

 

Mars Multi-Scout Landers mission concept poster	Multi-Scout orbiter and lander separation
Lander heat shield separation	Balloon lowers the lander airbags
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Bounce to the surface.	Southern Highlands lander touchdown
Polygonal terrain lander deployment	Holden Crater lander
Melas Chasma Lander science investigations	Polar Scout Lander

 

Multi-Scouts was an early concept under consideration by NASA to be the first Scout mission in 2007. This series of images show a "workhorse" orbiter deploying eight Multi-Scout landers. Each lander would have been sent to a different scientifically important landing site.

 

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