Conceptual Design of the Mars Rover Sample Return System
Author : James R. Rose
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : James R. Rose
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : J. Randolph
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : James E. Randolph
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Mars (Planet)
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309479363
In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. That report, titled Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022, and popularly referred to as the "decadal survey," has provided high-level prioritization and guidance for NASA's Planetary Science Division. Other considerations, such as budget realities, congressional language in authorization and appropriations bills, administration requirements, and cross-division and cross-directorate requirements (notably in retiring risk or providing needed information for the human program) are also necessary inputs to how NASA develops its planetary science program. In 2016 NASA asked the National Academies to undertake a study assessing NASA's progress at meeting the objectives of the decadal survey. After the study was underway, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act of 2017 which called for NASA to engage the National Academies in a review of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. NASA and the Academies agreed to incorporate that review into the midterm study. That study has produced this report, which serves as a midterm assessment and provides guidance on achieving the goals in the remaining years covered by the decadal survey as well as preparing for the next decadal survey, currently scheduled to begin in 2020.
Author : Emily Lakdawalla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 331968146X
This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a one-ton robot with two brains, seventeen cameras, six wheels, nuclear power, and a laser beam on its head. No one human understands how all of its systems and instruments work. This essential reference to the Curiosity mission explains the engineering behind every system on the rover, from its rocket-powered jetpack to its radioisotope thermoelectric generator to its fiendishly complex sample handling system. Its lavishly illustrated text explains how all the instruments work -- its cameras, spectrometers, sample-cooking oven, and weather station -- and describes the instruments' abilities and limitations. It tells you how the systems have functioned on Mars, and how scientists and engineers have worked around problems developed on a faraway planet: holey wheels and broken focus lasers. And it explains the grueling mission operations schedule that keeps the rover working day in and day out.
Author : Wayne L. Darnell
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Mars (Planet)
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Author : James L. Rash
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Artificial intelligence
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309224640
In recent years, planetary science has seen a tremendous growth in new knowledge. Deposits of water ice exist at the Moon's poles. Discoveries on the surface of Mars point to an early warm wet climate, and perhaps conditions under which life could have emerged. Liquid methane rain falls on Saturn's moon Titan, creating rivers, lakes, and geologic landscapes with uncanny resemblances to Earth's. Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 surveys the current state of knowledge of the solar system and recommends a suite of planetary science flagship missions for the decade 2013-2022 that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries about the solar system. Research priorities defined in the report were selected through a rigorous review that included input from five expert panels. NASA's highest priority large mission should be the Mars Astrobiology Explorer Cacher (MAX-C), a mission to Mars that could help determine whether the planet ever supported life and could also help answer questions about its geologic and climatic history. Other projects should include a mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa and its subsurface ocean, and the Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission to investigate that planet's interior structure, atmosphere, and composition. For medium-size missions, Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 recommends that NASA select two new missions to be included in its New Frontiers program, which explores the solar system with frequent, mid-size spacecraft missions. If NASA cannot stay within budget for any of these proposed flagship projects, it should focus on smaller, less expensive missions first. Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 suggests that the National Science Foundation expand its funding for existing laboratories and establish new facilities as needed. It also recommends that the program enlist the participation of international partners. This report is a vital resource for government agencies supporting space science, the planetary science community, and the public.
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Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Carl F. Hostetter
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 1995
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