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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-103-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-103-2017
Research article
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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, Konstantin Pichkadze, Lev Zeleny, Luis Vazquez, Walter Schmidt, Sergey Alexashkin, Oleg Korablev, Hector Guerrero, Jyri Heilimo, Mikhail Uspensky, Valery Finchenko, Vyacheslav Linkin, Ignacio Arruego, Maria Genzer, Alexander Lipatov, Jouni Polkko, Mark Paton, Hannu Savijärvi, Harri Haukka, Tero Siili, Vladimir Khovanskov, Boris Ostesko, Andrey Poroshin, Marina Diaz-Michelena, Timo Siikonen, Matti Palin, Viktor Vorontsov, Alexander Polyakov, Francisco Valero, Osku Kemppinen, Jussi Leinonen, and Pilar Romero

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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.