MRSR: Rationale for a Mars Rover/Sample Return mission

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Aug 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992esse.nasa..249c&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Ames Research Center, Exobiology in Solar System Exploration p 249-262 (SEE N93-18545 06-51)

Biology

Mars Sample Return Missions, Nasa Space Programs, Space Exploration, Mars Surface, Planetary Geology, Sampling, Surface Vehicles

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The Solar System Exploration Committee of the NASA Advisory Council has recommended that a Mars Rover/Sample Return mission be launched before the year 2000. The recommendation is consistent with the science objectives as outlined by the National Academy of Sciences committees on Planetary and Lunar Exploration, and Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution. Interest has also focused on Mars Rover/Sample Return (MRSR) missions, because of their crucial role as precursors for human exploration. As a result of this consensus among the advisory groups, a study of an MRSR mission began early in 1987. The study has the following goals: (1) to assess the technical feasibility of the mission; (2) to converge on two or three options for the general architecture of the mission; (3) to determine what new technologies need to be developed in order to implement the mission; (4) to define the different options sufficiently well that preliminary cost estimates can be made; and (5) to better define the science requirements. This chapter briefly describes Mars Rover/Sample Return missions that were examined in the late 1980s. These missions generally include a large (1000 kg) rover and return of over 5 kg of sample.

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