page_title: Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey
hierarchical_section_title: Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey
caption_attribution_description: ARES soaring over Mars.
context_page_description: The Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey was a proposal by NASA's Langley Research Center to build a powered aircraft that would fly on Mars. The ARES team sought to be selected and funded as a NASA Mars Scout Mission for a 2011 or 2013 launch window. However, the MAVEN mission was chosen instead. ARES was chosen as one of four finalists in that program.
  ARES would have traveled to Mars compactly folded into a protective aeroshell; upon entry in the thin atmosphere, the capsule would have deployed a parachute to decelerate, followed by ARES release at altitude.
  Among other things, the aircraft would have investigated the atmosphere and weak magnetic field.
context_section_description: The Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey (ARES) was a proposal by NASA's Langley Research Center to build a powered aircraft that would fly on Mars.  The ARES team sought to be selected and funded as a NASA Mars Scout Mission for a 2011 or 2013 launch window. However, the MAVEN mission was chosen instead. ARES was chosen as one of four finalists in that program.
  ARES would have traveled to Mars compactly folded into a protective aeroshell; upon entry in the thin atmosphere, the capsule would have deployed a parachute to decelerate, followed by ARES release at altitude.
  Among other things, the aircraft would have investigated the atmosphere and weak magnetic field.
caption: ARES aircraft
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