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Where to Map? Iterative Rover-Copter Path Planning for Mars Exploration [PDF]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020 In addition to conventional ground rovers, the Mars 2020 mission will send a helicopter to Mars. The copter's high-resolution data helps the rover to identify small hazards such as steps and pointy rocks, as well as providing rich textual information ...
Takahiro Sasaki +4 more
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Development of a Lizard-Inspired Robot for Mars Surface Exploration
Biomimetics, 2023 Exploring Mars is beneficial to increasing our knowledge, understanding the possibility of ancient microbial life there, and discovering new resources beyond the Earth to prepare for future human missions to Mars. To assist ambitious uncrewed missions to
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Rocks, prominent features on the surface of Mars, are a primary focus of Mars exploration missions. The accuracy of recognizing rock information, including size and position, deeply affects the path planning for rovers on Mars and the geological ...
Dian Zheng +4 more
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Earth and Space Science, 2023 The Mars 2020 Mastcam‐Z stereo camera investigation enables the generation of three dimension (3D) data products needed to visualize and analyze rocks, outcrops, and other geological and aeolian features.
Gerhard Paar +18 more
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Origin of Life on Mars: Suitability and Opportunities
Life, 2021 Although the habitability of early Mars is now well established, its suitability for conditions favorable to an independent origin of life (OoL) has been less certain.
Benton C. Clark +8 more
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Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022 The necessity for applying a potent analytical regolith geochemical grade estimator is driven by the reality of mineral exploration. This is because many exploration geologists rely upon the classical geostatistical method of Kriging which oftentimes do ...
Fareed Majeed +4 more
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The Mars system revealed by the Martian Moons eXploration mission
Earth, Planets and Space, 2022 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans a Phobos sample return mission (MMX: Martian Moons eXploration). In this study, we review the related works on the past climate of Mars, its evolution, and the present climate and weather to describe the ...
K. Ogohara +23 more
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Integrated in-situ resource utilization system design and logistics for Mars exploration
Acta Astronautica, 2020 This paper develops an interdisciplinary space architecture optimization framework to analyze the tradeoff on in-situ resource utilization options, identify technology gaps, evaluate the benefits of in-situ resource utilization, and optimize the design ...
Hao Chen +3 more
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The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2021 Potential deleterious health effects to astronauts induced by space radiation is one of the most important long-term risks for human space missions, especially future planetary missions to Mars which require a return-trip duration of about 3 years with ...
Jingnan Guo +9 more
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Mawrth Vallis, Mars: A Fascinating Place for Future In Situ Exploration [PDF]
Astrobiology, 2020 After the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, both NASA and ESA initiated a selection process for potential landing sites for the Mars2020 and ExoMars missions, respectively.
F. Poulet +6 more
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