Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander
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'''Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander''' was a planned [[NASA]] [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] probe which was cancelled in May 2000 in the wake of the failures of the [[Mars Climate Orbiter]] and [[Mars Polar Lander]] missions in late 1999. The Lander's companion spacecraft Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter, renamed [[2001 Mars Odyssey]], was launched and went into orbit about Mars on [[October 24]], [[2001]].
The 2001 Surveyor lander spacecraft was built under contract to NASA by the [[Lockheed Martin]] corporation. The basic lander design is identical to that of the Mars Polar Lander, which had been intended to be the first of a series of low-cost "Mars Surveyor" landers sent to Mars. Prior to mission cancellation, cost overruns and technical problems caused the Lander design to be rescoped, and the planned large Athena [[Mars rover|rover]] was replaced by a small rover duplicating the [[Sojourner (rover) | ''Sojourner'']] which was a part of the [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission. The Athena did later make it to Mars, however, with two such rovers making up the [[Mars Exploration Rover Mission]] of [[2004]]. The second of these, [[MER-B|MER-B ''Opportunity'']], landed at Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander's target site, [[Meridiani Planum]].
The 2001 Surveyor lander was also intended to carry to Mars a test payload, MIP (Mars ISPP Precursor), that was to demonstrate manufacure of [[oxygen]] from the atmosphere of Mars<ref>D. Kaplan ''et al.'', [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/marsmiss99/pdf/2503.pdf THE MARS IN-SITU-PROPELLANT-PRODUCTION PRECURSOR (MIP) FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION], paper presented at ''Mars 2001: Integrated Science in Preparation for Sample Return and Human Exploration'', Lunar and Planetary Institute, Oct. 2-4 1999, Houston, TX.</ref>, as well as test [[solar cell]] technologies and methods of mitigating the effect of [[Martian dust]] on the power systems.<ref>G. A. Landis, P. Jenkins, D. Scheiman, and C. Baraona, "[http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/robomars/pdf/6136.pdf MATE and DART: An Instrument Package for Characterizing Solar Energy and Atmospheric Dust on Mars]", presented at ''Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration'', July 18–20, 2000
Houston, Texas.</ref>
The Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander itself was kept in storage and then used as the lander on the [[Phoenix (spacecraft)|''Phoenix'']] mission; it is currently on Mars in the north polar region. The ''Phoenix'' lander has on board three instruments that were originally built for the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander:
* the [[Phoenix (spacecraft)#Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer|Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer]] (MECA);
* the never-used [[Phoenix (spacecraft)#Mars Descent Imager|Mars Descent Imager]] (MARDI) camera;
* the [[Phoenix (spacecraft)#Robotic Arm and Camera|Robotic Arm]], which was modified for the ''Phoenix'' mission.
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=MS2001L NSSDC Master Catalog entry]
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=956410&id=3&qs=Ne%3D25%26N%3D297%2B132 Workshop on Mars 2001: Integrated Science in Preparation for Sample Return and Human Exploration] (papers describing mission and experiments) ([http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20000012695_1999213538.pdf 11 M pdf])
*[http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC99/pdf/1797.pdf MIP Experiment] summary, presented at ''Lunar and Planetary Science XXX'', Houston, TX (1999).
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