Mission Artwork

Mars Multi-Scout Landers

A series showing a new workhorse orbiter deploying eight scout landers. Each lander will go to a different scientifically important landing site. Multi-Scouts were one of many possibilities under consideration by NASA to be the first Scout mission to be sent in 2007.

 

Workhorse orbiter and lander separation.   Image 2: Lander heat shield separation.

 

 

 

 

Image 3: Balloon lowers the lander airbags.   Image 4: Bounce to the surface.

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Image 5: Lander touchdown.
 

Image 6: Lander deployment.

 

Image 7: Lander camera observes landing site.
 

Image 8: Lander science investigations

 

 

 Polar Scout Lander

 

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