The MetNet vehicle: a lander to deploy environmental stations for local and global investigations of Mars

Harri, Ari-Matti; Pichkadze, Konstantin; Zeleny, Lev; Vazquez, Luis; Schmidt, Walter; Alexashkin, Sergey; Korablev, Oleg; Guerrero, Hector; Heilimo, Jyri; Uspensky, Mikhail; Finchenko, Valery; Linkin, Vyacheslav; Arruego, Ignacio; Genzer, Maria; Lipatov, Alexander; Polkko, Jouni; Paton, Mark; Savijärvi, Hannu; Haukka, Harri; Siili, Tero; Khovanskov, Vladimir; Ostesko, Boris; Poroshin, Andrey; Diaz-Michelena, Marina; Siikonen, Timo; Palin, Matti; Vorontsov, Viktor; Polyakov, Alexander; Valero, Francisco; Kemppinen, Osku; Leinonen, Jussi; Romero, Pilar

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-103-2017

Articles | Volume 6, issue 1

Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 6, 103–124, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-103-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 6, 103–124, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-103-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 1

Research article 24 Feb 2017

Research article | 24 Feb 2017

The MetNet vehicle: a lander to deploy environmental stations for local and global investigations of Mars

Ari-Matti Harri et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 24 Feb 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 02 Aug 2016)

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RC1: 'Comments and corrections to help improve the paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Author's esponse to the review (Reviewer #1)', Ari-Matti Harri, 18 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Some modest improvements should be made', Ralph D. Lorenz, 07 Sep 2016
- AC2: 'Author's esponse to the review (Reviewer #2)', Ari-Matti Harri, 18 Nov 2016

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Investigations of Mars – its atmosphere, surface and interior – require simultaneous, distributed in situ measurements. We have developed an innovative prototype of the Mars Network Lander (MNL), a small lander/penetrator with a 20 % payload mass fraction. MNL features an innovative Entry, Descent and Landing System to increase reliability and reduce the system mass. It is ideally suited for piggy-backing on spacecraft, for network missions and pathfinders for high-value landed missions.