NASA's Mars Exploration Program includes science goals related to life, climate, geology, and preparation for human exploration. Many of the investigations needed to reach these goals are enabled by long-term, continuous surface presence with logistical support. These capabilities can be provided by a progressive series of missions that establish and maintain a long-lived robotic presence, i.e. a Mars Outpost. To investigate the issues associated with robotic outpost design, the JPL Mars Long Range Planning Team developed and studied a heuristic outpost scenario. Major goals of the study included identifying: (1) which science objectives benefit from an outpost setting, (2) technology needs to fulfill mission requirements, and (3) operational/logistical challenges associated with multi-mission planning. This paper describes an outpost designed with the aforementioned goals in mind. The design focuses on subsurface mapping and characterization, accomplished through seismic mapping and deep drilling.


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    Title :

    Future Mars Outpost architecture


    Contributors:
    Williams, T.D. (author) / Owens, J.M. (author) / Easter, R.W. (author) / Mireles, O.R. (author) / Ramsey, S.A. (author) / Palko, C.W. (author)


    Publication date :

    2001-01-01


    Size :

    1868225 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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