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Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group Goal One: Determine If Life Ever Arose on Mars
Astrobiology, 2010The Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) maintains a standing document that articulates scientific community goals, objectives, and priorities for mission-enabled Mars science. Each of the goals articulated within the document is periodically revisited and updated.
Frances Westall, Tori Hoehler
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Scientific Objectives of China-Russia Joint Mars Exploration Program YH-1
Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010Abstract Compared with other planets, Mars is a planet most similar with the earth and most possible to find the extraterrestrial life on it, and therefore especially concerned about by human beings. In recent years, some countries have launched Mars probes and announced their manned Mars exploration programs.
Chi Wang, Ji Wu
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An international Mars Exploration Program
Acta Astronautica, 1990The scientific reasons for a Mars exploration program are reviewed, and the robotic phase of such a program is examined. The functions and requirements of the rovers, surface stations and penetrators are addressed, as are those of the imaging and communications orbiters.
Donald G. Rea +3 more
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Italian participation in the Mars exploration program
Advances in Space Research, 2001Recently agreements have been signed between the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and ESA and NASA for the exploration of Mars. These agreements initiate the participation of the Italian scientific community as well as the Italian industrial community in the international program to explore Mars.
Coradini, A. +8 more
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“Mars on $300K a day”: The Mars exploration program
Acta Astronautica, 1996Abstract The Mars Exploration Program is pioneering a series of “better, faster, cheaper” missions to Mars over at least the next 10 years, and possibly well into the 21st century. The overall cost of the program is somewhat over $100M per year, including launch vehicles and operations, for two launches every 26 months. (This works out to about $300K
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Mars Exploration Rover Thermal Test Program Overview
SAE Technical Paper Series, 2004<div class="htmlview paragraph">In January 2004, two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) landed on the surface of Mars to begin their mission as robotic geologists. A year prior to these historic landings, both rovers and the spacecraft that delivered them to Mars, were completing a series of environmental tests in facilities at the Jet Propulsion ...
M. T. Pauken +4 more
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ESA ExoMars program: The next step in exploring Mars
Solar System Research, 2015The ExoMars program is an ESA–Roscosmos cooperation with some NASA contributions. ExoMars consists of two missions, one in 2016 and one in 2018. The 2016 mission includes an orbiting satellite dedicated to the study of atmospheric trace gases to acquire information on possible on-going geological or biological processes, and a European entry, descent ...
J. Vago +8 more
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Combined program of Mars exploration using automatic spacecraft
Acta Astronautica, 1989Abstract This report contains a retrospective review of results of the Moon, Venus and Mars research programs carried out by Soviet spacecraft during the past 30 years. It briefly outlines some technical characteristics of “Luna” “Mars” and “Venera” spacecraft that provided solution of scientific problems of high priority in space research ...
V.M. Kovtunenko +3 more
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Mars Technology Program Communications and Tracking Technologies for Mars Exploration
2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2006The future of the exploration of Mars see an unprecedented increase in the volume of data generated by an increasingly capable host of science instruments on various rovers, aerobots, orbiters and eventually humans on Mars. To return these large volumes of data to Earth, communication links with data-rate capabilities in the multiple megabits-per ...
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Touching Mars: 1998 status of the Mars Robotic Exploration Program
Acta Astronautica, 1999Abstract The Mars Robotic Exploration Program is sending missions every 26 months to orbit and land on Mars and, in 2005, to return a sample to Earth. The highly successful Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor missions were launched in 1996. Mars Surveyor 98 will launch in December 1998 and January 1999, to be followed by an orbiter, lander and ...
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