The Critical Importance of an Integrated Approach Between the Mars Surveyor Program and the Future Human Exploration Landing Site Selection

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Jan 1999

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Workshop on Mars 2001: Integrated Science in Preparation for Sample Return and Human Exploration, p. 23

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Mars Surveyor 2001 Mission, Mars Exploration, Mars Surface, Mars (Planet), Manned Mars Missions, Landing Sites, Biological Evolution, Water, Mars Environment

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The priority science objectives of the Mars Surveyor Program are to document the evolution of water, life, and climate, and to assess the existing resources on Mars. The same areas of investigations are planned by the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) for the human exploration of Mars [the Reference Mission, NASA SP 6107, 1997]. The objectives of automated and human exploration are thus very close, although we can assume that the emphasis could vary (e.g. seeking for resources might be a more developed activity for the human exploration that for the current automated exploration). Therefore, the current automated missions of the Surveyor Program are an important source of information that will influence the way we will explore Mars with EVA-Rover crews in the future. It also makes sense that the Surveyor Program sites are likely to be high-priority candidate-sites for landing human mission for the simple reason that we will know the environment associated to these sites better than the rest of Mars. Thus, there is a critical need to include an important HEDS component in the Mars Surveyor Program site selection. The implications are not only science, but also technology and engineering, mission safety and cost effectiveness.

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