NASA Jet Propulsion Lab - Mars Student Climate Lander
Left: Solid model of Mars Student Climate Lander. Right: MSCL Logo I interned with the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in the summer of 2007 and worked with a team of six other engineers to design a payload to be deployed on Mars with the Astrobiology Field Lab rover. We developed the Mars Student Climate Lander, which would be deployed to collect weather data on Mars. My job was to design the structure of the system so that it could withstand being dropped 2 meters onto the martian surface, collect enough solar radiation to function, and house all the necessary sensors and actuators.
Left: Top view of the Mars Student Climate Lander. Right: Side view.
MSCL without solar panels.
Exploded view of MSCL.
Me posing next to the larger Mars Rover - MSL - that might one day drop off my payload on Mars.
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