Various vehicle and mission options were investigated for the continued exploration of Mars; the cost of a minimum sample return mission was estimated; options and concepts were synthesized into program possibilities; and recommendations for the next Mars mission were made to the Planetary Program office. Specific sites and all relevant spacecraft and ground-based data were studied in order to determine: (1) the adequacy of presently available data for identifying landing sities for a sample return mission that would assure the acquisition of material from the most important geologic provinces of Mars; (2) the degree of surface mobility required to assure sample acquisition for these sites; (3) techniques to be used in the selection and drilling of rock a samples; and (4) the degree of mobility required at the two Viking sites to acquire these samples.


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    Title :

    Mars Sample Return: Site Selection and Sample Acquisition Study


    Contributors:
    N. Nickle (author)

    Publication date :

    1980


    Size :

    49 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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