New Millennium Flight to Send Microprobes to Mars

Posted by jburk to Mars Polar Lander at September 24, 1996 12:00 PM

Two small science probes will be sent to Mars in 1999 to demonstrate innovative new technologies brought to the forefront by NASA's New Millennium program. Under terms of a new agreement between the New Millennium and Mars Exploration programs, the microprobes will hitchhike to Mars aboard NASA's 1998 Mars Surveyor Lander.