Mars Microprobe Mission
Also known as Deep Space 2, the second mission in NASA's New
Millennium Program. It consisted of two basketball-sized aeroshells
that piggybacked aboard the Mars Polar Lander. The
aeroshells were supposed to crash at about 200 meters per second into the
martian surface at the northernmost boundary of the area near the south
polar ice cap known as the Polar Layered Terrain, about 200 km from the
landing site of the main spacecraft and then send back information on subsurface
conditions. Each would have released a miniature two-piece science penetrator
probe designed to punch into the soil to a depth of up to 2m and search
for subsurface ice. In the event, no transmission was ever received.
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PROBES
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