NASA/JPL · Aerospace · 2018
Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. Stationary Mars lander built on the Phoenix design with larger solar panels. Equipped with a robotic instrument deployment arm that placed a French-built seismometer (SEIS) and a German-built self-hammering heat probe (HP3 'mole') on the surface. Detected over 1,300 marsquakes and revealed Mars's interior structure before being decommissioned due to dust buildup on solar panels.
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View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Aerospace |
| Sub-type | Planetary Lander |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2018 |
| Origin | USA |
| Also known as | Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, GEMS, Discovery 12 |
| Announced | 2012-08-20 |
| Released | 2018-11-26 |
| Dimensions (H×W×D) | 1000 × 6000 × 1560 mm |
| Weight | 358 kg |
| Frame | Aluminum, composites |
| Degrees of freedom | 4 |
| Payload | 9 kg |
| Reach | 1800 mm |
| Camera | Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC, color), Instrument Context Camera (ICC, fisheye) |
| Chipset | BAE Systems RAD750 (rad-hardened PowerPC) |
| Actuator type | Brushed DC motors with harmonic drives |
| Made in | USA |
