1. Rationale and Proposed Design for a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Science Program
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Haltigin, Timothy, Hauber, Ernst, Kminek, Gerhard, Meyer, Michael A., Agee, Carl B., Busemann, Henner, Carrier, Brandi Lee, Glavin, Daniel P., Hays, Lindsay E, Marty, Bernard, Pratt, Lisa M, Udry, Arya, Zorzano, Maria-Paz, Beaty, David W, Cavalazzi, Barbara, Cockell, Charles S., Debaille, Vinciane, Grady, Monica M., Hutzler, Aurore, McCubbin, Francis M., Regberg, Aaron B., Smith, Alvin L., Smith, Caroline L, Summons, Roger E., Swindle, Timothy D., Tait, Kimberly T., Tosca, Nicholas J., Usui, Tomohiro, Velbel, Michael A., Wadhwa, Meenakshi, Westall, Frances, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), German Aerospace Center (DLR), European Space Agency (ESA), NASA Headquarters, Institute of Meteoritics [Albuquerque] (IOM), The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Indiana University [Bloomington], Indiana University System, University of Nevada [Las Vegas] (WGU Nevada), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), University of Bologna, Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute [Milton Keynes] (PSSRI), Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research [Milton Keynes] (CEPSAR), The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU)-The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Planetary and Space Sciences [Milton Keynes] (PSS), School of Physical Sciences [Milton Keynes], Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics [Milton Keynes], The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU)-The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU)-Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics [Milton Keynes], Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA-NASA, Department of Earth Sciences [NHM London] (DES-NHM), The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson] (LPL), University of Arizona, Royal Ontario Museum, Department of Earth Sciences [Cambridge, UK], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [Tokyo] (JAXA), Michigan State University System, Centre de biophysique moléculaire (CBM), and Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)
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geology ,laboratory experiments ,Extraterrestrial Environment ,Earth, Planet ,astrobiology ,Mars ,sample return ,Space Flight ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,Space and Planetary Science ,sample analysis ,Exobiology ,Humans ,Mars Sample Return (MSR) Campaign - Abstract
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) Campaign represents one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors ever undertaken. Analyses of the martian samples would offer unique science benefits that cannot be attained through orbital or landed missions that rely only on remote sensing and in situ measurements, respectively.As currently designed, the MSR Campaign comprises a number of scientific, technical, and programmatic bodies and relationships, captured in a series of existing and anticipated documents. Ensuring that all required scientific activities are properly designed, managed, and executed would require significant planning and coordination. Because there are multiple scientific elements that would need to be executed to achieve MSR Campaign success, it is critical to ensure that the appropriate management, oversight, planning, and resources are made available to accomplish them. This could be achieved via a formal MSR Science Management Plan (SMP).A subset of the MSR Science Planning Group 2 (MSPG2)-termed the SMP Focus Group-was tasked to develop inputs for an MSR Campaign SMP. The scope is intended to cover the interface to the Mars 2020 mission, science elements in the MSR flight program, ground-based science infrastructure, MSR science opportunities, and the MSR sample and science data management.In this report, a comprehensive MSR Science Program is proposed that comprises specific science bodies and/or activities that could be implemented to address the science functionalities throughout the MSR Campaign. The proposed structure was designed by taking into consideration previous management review processes, a set of guiding principles, and key lessons learned from previous robotic exploration and sample return missions., Astrobiology, 22 (S1), ISSN:1531-1074, ISSN:1557-8070
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- 2022
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