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NASA
Approves Mars Mission Participation
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NASA gave the
go-ahead to fund participation in a Mission of Opportunity to Mars
scheduled for 2007.  The
French and Italian space agencies will team with NASA for this
project. NASA will build a wind sensor and seismometers on each of
the four landers in the mission, as well as a geodesy instrument on
the orbiter of the mission for a total cost of US$35 million. The
mission is booked for launch on an Ariane 5 in 2007.
 The
CNES-led NetLander mission is to create the first science network on
Mars to study the Red Planet's internal structure. W. Bruce Banerdt
of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California will
lead U.S. involvement in the French Mars project.
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