The Mars Observer Mission

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Jan 1985

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 23rd, Reno, NV, Jan. 14-17, 1985. 5 p. NASA-supp

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Climatology, Dust Storms, Mars Observer, Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Mapping, Space Missions, Carbon Dioxide, Spacecraft Models, Water

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The Mars Observer Mission is to be the first in a series of modest-cost inner-planet missions. Launch is planned for the August/September 1990 Mars opportunity with arrival at Mars one year later. The geoscience/climatology objectives are to be met during a mapping mission over the course of one Mars year (687 days). The mapping orbit will be near-polar (93 degree orbital inclination), sun-synchronous (2 PM sunward equator crossing), and near-circular (350 km orbit altitude, 116 minute period). The spacecraft, to be selected in late 1985, will be a modified version of an existing commercial design which, in the mapping orbit, will maintain a nadir orientation. Experiments and instruments will be selected through an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) process with release of the AO in April 1985, and selection in early 1986. A description of current planning for this mission, with emphasis on climatology, is presented here.

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