The Mars 2020 rover will carry a new subsystem to collect and prepare Martian rocks and regolith (loose, unconsolidated) samples. This includes a rotary percussive coring drill and a set of sample tubes. About 30 of these sample tubes will be deposited at select locations for return on a potential future sample-retrieval mission. In laboratories on Earth, specimens from Mars could be analyzed for evidence of past life on Mars and possible health hazards for future human missions. Hardware and control algorithms for the coring drill are based heavily on testing. Results from testing of prototype hardware are used to refine the design


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    Title :

    Mars 2020 Coring Drill: Prototype Testing and Analysis


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Discovery Summit ; 2016 ; Cary, NC, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-09-19


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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