MEP (Mars environment package): Toward a package for studying environmental conditions at the surface of mars from future lander/rover missions
- Type de publi. : Article dans une revue
- Date de publi. : 11/09/2004
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Auteurs :
Eric ChassefièreJean-Loup BertauxJean-Jacques BerthelierMichel CabaneValérie CiarlettiGeorges DurryFrançois ForgetMichel HamelinFrançois LeblancMichel MenvielleM. GerasimovOleg KorablevS. LinkinG. ManagadzeA. JambonG. ManhèsPhilippe LognonnéP. AgrinierPierre CartignyD. GiardiniT. PikeW. KofmanA. HeriquePatrice CollA. PersonF. M. CostardPhilippe SardaPhilippe PaillouM. ChaussidonBernard MartyFlorent RobertS. MauriceM. BlancC. d'UstonJ.-Ch. SabrouxJ.-F. PineauPierre Rochette
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Organismes :
Service d'aéronomie
Service d'aéronomie
Centre d'étude des environnements terrestre et planétaires
Service d'aéronomie
Service d'aéronomie
Service d'aéronomie
Service d'aéronomie
Service d'aéronomie
Service d'aéronomie
Service d'aéronomie
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Institut für Informationssysteme
Imperial College London
Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble
Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6
Université Paris-Sud,
Université Paris-Sud,
Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers
Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
Laboratoire de minéralogie
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement
- Publié dans Advances in Space Research le 26/10/2020
Résumé : In view to prepare Mars human exploration, it is necessary to promote and lead, at the international level, a highly interdisciplinary program, involving specialists of geochemistry, geophysics, atmospheric science, space weather, and biology. The goal of this program will be to elaborate concepts of individual instruments, then of integrated instrumental packages, able to collect exhaustive data sets of environmental parameters from future landers and rovers of Mars, and to favour the conditions of their implementation. Such a program is one of the most urgent need for preparing human exploration, in order to develop mitigation strategies aimed at ensuring the safety of human explorers, and minimizing risk for surface operations. A few main areas of investigation may be listed: particle and radiation environment, chemical composition of atmosphere, meteorology, chemical composition of dust, surface and subsurface material, water in the subsurface, physical properties of the soil, search for an hypothesized microbial activity, characterization of radio-electric properties of the Martian ionosphere. Scientists at the origin of the present paper, already involved at a high degree of responsibility in several Mars missions, and actively preparing in situ instrumentation for future landed platforms (Netlander - now cancelled, MSL-09), express their readiness to participate in both ESA/AURORA and NASA programs of Mars human exploration. They think that the formation of a Mars Environment working group at ESA, in the course of the AURORA definition phase, could act positively in favour of the program, by increasing its scientific cross-section and making it still more focused on human exploration. © 2004 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of COSPAR.
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