The Mars Surveyor program requires tools for martian surface exploration, including remote sensing, in-situ sensing, and sample collection. The Athena Mars rover payload is a suite of scientific instruments and sample collection tools designed to: (1) Provide color stereo imaging of martian surface environments, and remotely-sensed point discrimination of mineralogical composition; (2) Determine the elemental and mineralogical composition of martian surface materials; (3) Determine the fine-scale textural properties of these materials; and (4) Collect and store samples. The Athena payload is designed to be implemented on a long-range rover such as the one now under consideration for the 2003 Mars opportunity. The payload is at a high state of maturity, and most of the instruments have now been built for flight.


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    Title :

    The Athena Mars Rover Investigation


    Contributors:
    Squyres, S. W. (author) / Arvidson, R. E. (author) / Bell, J. F., III (author) / Carr, M. (author) / Christensen, P. (author) / DesMarais, D. (author) / Economou, T. (author) / Gorevan, S. (author) / Haskin, L. (author) / Herkenhoff, K. (author)


    Publication date :

    2000-07-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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