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Geology of the InSight landing site on Mars [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 AbstractThe Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft landed successfully on Mars and imaged the surface to characterize the surficial geology. Here we report on the geology and subsurface structure of the landing site to aid in situ geophysical investigations. InSight landed in a degraded impact
Sharon A. Wilson +48 more
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Tehnika, 2019 More than 40 years after the first successful landing on Mars, in situ exploration of its surface continues to be a huge scientific and technological challenge. This primarily refers to Martian southern highlands, extending over a large part of its southern hemisphere, where no successful landing has been achieved so far.
Dušan Marčeta, Boško Rašuo
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Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars [PDF]
The Electrochemical Society Interface, 2021 On February 18, 2021, at 3:55 p.m. EST, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed at the Jezero Crater on Mars. Perseverance is NASA’s most advanced rover to date and traveled 293 million miles (472 million kilometers) over 203 days; an average speed of over 60,000 miles per hour! After several weeks of testing, Perseverance will begin a two-year exploration of
Gregory S. Jackson, E. Jennings Taylor
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Astronomy & Geophysics, 2009 In June 2009 a community workshop discussed what priorities in landing-site selection would drive UK involvement in Mars lander missions. The organizers and participants (below) summarize the conclusions of the workshop and their overview of current and future priorities in the UK search for signs of life on Mars.
Mark J. Burchell +5 more
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Preliminary study of rescue systems for Mars landing [PDF]
Acta Astronautica, 2021 Entry, descent and landing (EDL) is probably the most difficult and risky phase of a human mission to Mars. Whatever the EDL systems for Mars, the qualification might be very difficult, very expensive and the risks could still be very high, especially for the first missions.
Salotti, Jean-Marc, Doche, Julien
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Human Mars landing site and impacts on Mars surface operations [PDF]
2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2016 This paper describes NASA's initial steps for identifying and evaluating candidate Exploration Zones (EZs) and Regions of Interests (ROIs) for the first human crews that will explore the surface of Mars. NASA's current effort to define the exploration of this planet by human crews, known as the Evolvable Mars Campaign (EMC), provides the context in ...
Ben Bussey, Stephen J. Hoffman
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Color Properties at the Mars InSight Landing Site [PDF]
Earth and Space Science, 2021 AbstractThe color properties observed at the InSight landing site by the lander cameras are spectral mixtures of two source materials: gray‐black rocky material with chromaticity values of x = 0.32, y = 0.32 (standard deviations of σx = 0.02 and σy = 0.03) and yellowish‐brown dust with chromaticity values of x = 0.42, y = 0.36 (standard deviations of ...
J. N. Maki +7 more
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NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands on Mars [PDF]
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2008 After a 9.5‐month, 679‐million‐kilometer flight from Florida, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made a soft landing in Vastitas Borealis in Mars's northern polar region on 25 May. The lander, whose camera already has returned some spectacular images, is on a 3‐month mission to examine the area and dig into the soil of this site—chosen for its likelihood of ...
Mohi Kumar, Randy Showstack
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Mars Exploration Entry, Descent and Landing Challenges
2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2006 The United States has successfully landed five robotic systems on the surface of Mars. These systems all had landed mass below 0.6 metric tons (t), had landed footprints on the order of hundreds of km and landed at sites below -1 km MOLA elevation due the need to perform entry, descent and landing operations in an environment with sufficient ...
R.D. Braun +3 more
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Selection of the Mars Pathfinder landing site [PDF]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 1997 The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft will land on a depositional fan near the mouth of the catastrophic outflow channel, Ares Vallis (19.5°N, 32.8°W). This site offers the prospect of analyzing a variety of rock types from the ancient cratered highlands, intermediate‐age ridged plains, and reworked channel deposits.
Matthew P. Golombek +3 more
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