Let Mars Sample Return be Launched in 2007!

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Jul 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000came.work...27b&link_type=abstract

Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration, p. 27

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Mars Sample Return Missions, Mars Exploration, Mission Planning, Soil Sampling, Mars Surface Samples

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The laboratory investigations performed on extraterrestrial samples (lunar, meteorites, micrometeorites) over the past decades have demonstrated their unique capability of providing key data to understand the formation and early evolution of the Solar System. With Mars, we deal with a planet having gone through all steps of planetary activity, to a much higher level than underwent by the Moon and the small bodies, till its geological death, and without global resets: Mars has the potential to have recorded all major events over the entire and complex planetary evolution, including those linked to the organic evolution towards living organisms. Thus, the scientific outcomes of laboratory investigations on martian samples will serve a much wider community, including geophysics and geochemistry, planetology and climatology, atmospheric science and biology. Today's instrumental tools already give access to most properties at a grain size, a few micrometers in dimension. Within this decade, more sophisticated tools will still increase our capability of non destructive analyses (such as synchrotron X and IR coupled spectrometry), allowing the same samples, including individual grains, to be fully and sequentially analyzed for complete compositional determination: elemental, isotopic, molecular and mineralogical.

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