Mars Surveyor Program

The Wet Chemistry Laboratory (WCL) was first proposed in 1997 to NASA s Office of Human Exploration and Development of Space as a payload on the 2001 Mars Surveyor Program (MSP Ol) Lander, as part of the Mars Environmental Compatibility Assessment (MECA) instrument package. The purpose of the MSP Ol WCL was to determine the total dissolved solids, redox potential, and... 

In 1993, NASA started the Mars Surveyor program to conduct an ongoing series of missions to explore Mars. In 1995, two missions were scheduled that would be launched in late 1998 and early 1999. The missions were the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) and the Mars Polar Lander (MPL). The MCO was launched December 11, 1998, and the MPL, January 3,1999. 

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