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NASA’S PLANETARY GEOLOGIC MAPPING PROGRAM: OVERVIEW [PDF]
NASA’s Planetary Science Division supports the geologic mapping of planetary surfaces through a distinct organizational structure and a series of research and analysis (R&A) funding programs.
D. A. Williams
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The prospect of humans inhabiting planetary bodies is gaining interest among research and development communities, with the moon being considered as a transitory base camp and Mars the next planet humans will inhabit.
Bimi Shrestha+8 more
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Goal: Current Space Medicine operations depend on terrestrial support to manage medical events. As astronauts travel to destinations such as the Moon, Mars, and beyond, distance will substantially limit this support and require increasing medical ...
Dana R. Levin+6 more
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The Tianwen-1 Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing
Tianwen-1, the first mission of China’s planetary exploration program, accomplished its goals of orbiting, landing, and roving on the Mars. The entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phase directly determines the success of the entire mission, of which the ...
Xiangyu Huang+10 more
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Currently, the exploration of the planet Venus is a very relevant and developing direction in space science. The development of rocket and space technologies has expanded the boundaries of accessibility of spacecraft to objects in the Solar System, allow
M. Yu. Yatsenko+2 more
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A Low-Pressure, N2/CO2 Atmosphere Is Suitable for Cyanobacterium-Based Life-Support Systems on Mars
The leading space agencies aim for crewed missions to Mars in the coming decades. Among the associated challenges is the need to provide astronauts with life-support consumables and, for a Mars exploration program to be sustainable, most of those ...
Cyprien Verseux+6 more
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The Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group has identified measurements of the state and the variability of the Martian atmosphere as high priority investigations for the upcoming years. Balloon-borne instruments could bridge the gap in both temporal and
Lars Witte+6 more
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Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World
A foundational model has been developed based on trends built from empirical data of space exploration and computing power through the first six plus decades of the Space Age, which projects the earliest possible launch dates for human-crewed missions ...
Jonathan H. Jiang+2 more
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The Absence of an Ocean and the Fate of Water all Over the Martian History
Existing data returned in >40 years of planetary missions to Mars provided a good basis to understand that an ocean never existed on the surface of the planet during its whole history.
Giovanni Leone
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New Radiobiological Principles for the CNS Arising from Space Radiation Research
Traditionally, the brain has been regarded as a relatively insensitive late-reacting tissue, with radiologically detectable damage not being reported at doses < 60 Gy.
Richard A. Britten, Charles L. Limoli
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