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In the decade after NASA’s highly successful Viking missions to Mars, which saw orbiters dispatch landers to the surface, a variety of ambitious follow-up projects were elaborated in the United States, the European Space Agency came close to approving its Kepler Mars orbiter, and the Soviet Union was planning to resume its exploration of the planet with a series of increasingly complex missions.
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(2009). The era of flagships. In: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78905-7_2
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