Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey

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This article is about the proposed ARES aircraft on Mars. For other uses, see Ares (disambiguation).
Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey
ARES soaring over Mars.jpg
ARES aircraft
Mission type Mars atmospheric probe
Operator NASA
Website marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov
Mission duration 1 hour at Mars

The Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey (ARES) was a proposal by NASA's Langley Research Center to build a powered aircraft that would fly on Mars.[1][2][3] The ARES team sought to be selected and funded as a NASA Mars Scout Mission for a 2011[4] or 2013 launch window. However, the MAVEN mission was chosen instead.[5]

ARES would have traveled to Mars compactly folded into a protective aeroshell; upon entry in the thin atmosphere, the capsule would have deployed a parachute to decelerate, followed by ARES release at altitude.

Among other things, the aircraft would have investigated the atmosphere and weak magnetic field.[6]

Propulsion

Propulsion remained undetermined. The two main criteria used to evaluate the propulsion system were flight range and implementation risk. Possible propulsion technologies were electrical motors, internal combustion and rocket systems.[4] The aircraft was intended to fly for about one hour.

See also

References

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