Mars Field Geology, Biology. and Paleontology Workshop: Summary and Recommendations

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Jan 1998

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Mars Field Geology,Biology.and Paleontology Workshop: Summary and Recommendations, p. 1

Biology

Mars Surface, Mission Planning, Nasa Programs, Manned Mars Missions, Mars (Planet), Conferences, Crews, Planetary Geology

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Current NASA planning envisions human missions to Mars as early as 2013, on a mission that would send six crew members for a 500-day stay on the surface of Mars. While our understanding of how we would get there and back is fairly mature, the planning for what the crew would do to explore while on the surface for 500 days is less detailed. Mission objectives are to understand the composition and geo- morphology of the martian surface, and to continue to investigate and sample the geologic history of Mars. Special emphasis will focus on exploring for possible biogenic signatures, past or present, and on analyzing pre-biotic chemistry. The purpose of this workshop was to explore the strategies, desired capabilities, skills, and operational realities required to lend success to the first human missions to Mars. Current mission planning dictates that there will be considerable mobility, sampling and analytical capability available to human crews, at a site warranting long-term geologic and possibly biological interest. However, the details of specific capabilities are not yet clearly defined.

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