The Mars Science Laboratory mission is the 2009 United States Mars Exploration Program rover mission. The MSL Project expects to complete its pre-Phase A definition activity this fiscal year (FY2003), investigations in mid-March 2004, launch in 2009, arrive at Mars in 2010 during Northern hemisphere summer and then complete a full 687 day Mars year of surface exploration. MSL will assess the potential for habitability (past and present) of a carefully selected landing region on Mars by exploring for the chemical building blocks of life, and seeking to understand quantitatively the chemical and physical environment with which these components have interacted over the geologic history of the planet. Thus, MSL will advance substantially our understanding of the history of Mars and potentially, its capacity to sustain life.


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    Title :

    Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) : the US 2009 Mars rover mission


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    6th International Conference on Mars, Caltech ; 2003 ; Pasadena, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2003-06-07


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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