The Mars 2020 mission will land a rover on the surface of Mars that will acquire, encapsulate, and cache scientifically selected samples of martian material for possible return to Earth by a future mission. The samples will be individually encapsulated and sealed in sample tubes. Each sample, and therefore each sample tube, must be kept clean of viable organisms with a terrestrial origin, which may adhere to the rover on their own and/or on other non-biological particles. Therefore, contrary to previous missions to the Red Planet, Mars 2020 is subject to new and more stringent biological, organic and inorganic contamination requirements. This paper reports on the analyses and testing performed to assess the various vectors that can lead to the terrestrial-borne contamination of the samples, focusing on those that are predicted to be the larger contributors. Specifically, the contamination of the sample tubes is expected to be very small prior to the commencement of the mission’s science phase since these tubes are protected by so-called Fluid Mechanical Particle Barriers. Once on the surface of Mars however the sample tubes will be removed from their FMPBs and be subject to contamination from the rover. Of specific interest is the vector by which winds dislodge some particles from the surface of the rover and transport them to the surrounding soil. Naturally, such assessments require multi-disciplinary analyses involving at minimum the physics of particle adhesion and resuspension from surfaces, fluid mechanics and aerosols. Here we provide an overview of these models. We also report on particle resuspension experiments we have performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to both guide and validate the aforementioned physics models.


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    Titel :

    Modelling and Laboratory Testing of Particle Resuspension and Transport for the Assessment of Terrestrial-Borne Biological Contamination of the Samples on the Mars 2020 Mission


    Beteiligte:
    Steltzner, Adam (Autor:in) / Bernard, Douglas (Autor:in) / Robinson, Albert (Autor:in) / Shah, Parthiv (Autor:in) / Mennella, Jerami (Autor:in) / Mohan, Ganesh Babu Malli (Autor:in) / Chen, Fei (Autor:in) / Stricker, Moogega (Autor:in) / Strimbu, Zachary (Autor:in) / Droz, Evan (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.10.2018


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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