Mars Exploration Rover
(MER) (mission to Mars with two rovers)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER ) was a
NASA mission to Mars with two
rovers, MER-A , aka Spirit and
MER-B , aka Opportunity .
They landed on Mars in 2004, Spirit active
until 2010 and Opportunity active until 2018.
Instruments on each:
Pancam - panoramic camera.
Navcam - navigation camera.
Mini-TES - "Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer".
MIMOS II - Mössbauer spectrometer .
APXS - Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer.
MI - microscopic imager.
RAT - rock abrasion tool.
(space,Mars,NASA,past )
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(rover)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover)
https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-exploration-rover-spirit-mer-spirit
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-exploration-rover-opportunity-mer
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/missions/mer/
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/mars_exploration_rover.htm
Referenced by page:
Mars
Notes to myself regarding this page Index