Conceptual design for planetary exploration missions in the framework of "Planetary Evolution and Life"

Details Conceptual design for planetary exploration missions in the framework of "Planetary Evolution and Life" Conceptual design for planetary exploration missions in the framework of "Planetary Evolution and Life"

Oct 2011

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1163

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Since 2008, members of the Germany-based research alliance called "Planetary Evolution and life" are studying the topics of how life formed and evolved on Earth as well as possibly within and beyond our Solar System. The research alliance is tackling these questions from every possible angle, ranging from geophysics, astrobiology, and geology to engineering, where the latter discipline is basically concerned with practical problems such as conceptual mission design or instrument development to investigate planetary habitability and life. This poster presents the work that has been performed within the alliance regarding conceptual design and technology developments for future planetary exploration missions. Though this field is wide, spanning a variety of possible target bodies, target terrains and mission architectures, we have identified three prime mission concepts for further investigation, two of which will be presented in this paper. Surprisingly, the mission concepts are fairly different, but this only demonstrates how differently the overall topic can be tackled with respect to mission concept design.

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