MER's to Mars with SpaceX/Falcon 9? Options

[Guest_Oersted_*]

I was wondering how the MER package would integrate with a Falcon 9 rocket for eventual future Mars exploration on the (relatively) cheap?

My idea is that they'd dust off the old blueprints of the MER's at JPL, build a couple of them, integrate them (transit stage, EDL package and all) on top of a Dragon 9 and then fire it off towards Mars. Would be a proven exploration package with no extra research needed, sent off on a (hopefully) cheap and reliable rocket.

Does the MER heatshield fit inside the proposed Falcon 9 fairing? Could it carry one of maybe even two MER's?

Do you think we could get Musk and JPL interested in the idea?

[Paolo]

the big problem of the MERs and of the airbag landing system is that they could land successfully only in a few flat, relatively uninteresting areas.
for what it's worth, one of the Mars Polar Concepts of the latest decadal survey, is a MER-class rover to land within the polar layered terrain using precision landing techniques (probably some kind of Skycrane)