The Mars Science Lab (MSL) mission will be the gateway mission and is currently planned for 2009. The MSL mission is intended to push the state-of-the-art of in situ scientific observations of Mars, demonstrate several technologies critical to the follow-on Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, and provide information vital for implementing the entire MEP. The MSL mission will take advantage of a rich legacy of remote sensing observations by targeting a pre-selected site of scientific interest. The following technologies are being developed for the Mars Science Laboratory Project.
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