j'ai retrouvé l'instrument qui devait partir pour Mars. https://colluniv.sorbonne-universite.fr/document/ark:/82426/00275934/ #Mars96 #DYMIO #LATMOS

This map collects various sites for different versions of the mission. Two are for balloons and date from the early 90s (the Blamont sites were balloons). Others are for the landers and penetrators but there were several versions of them. The sites labelled IKI (Institute for Cosmic Research, in Moscow) is the final plan for the mission. Tables of site data are in my book, which is the source for these maps.
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We will look at recent lunar missions after this trip to Mars. This sequence is supposed to be about missions which didn't happen. This one did happen but only just... Mars 96 launched on 17 November 1996 but failed to leave Earth orbit and fell into the ocean near Chile a day later. Here I focus on landing site considerations, which are perhaps not well known. The mission had an orbiter, 2 landers and 2 penetrators, but versions with balloons were talked about early in planning.
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