Low cost Mars Sample Return mission options

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Wallace ◽  
R. Gamber ◽  
B. Clark ◽  
B. Sutter
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Sample Return ◽  
Sample Return Mission

In situ propellant production strategies and applications for a low-cost Mars sample return mission

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Coons ◽  
R Curtis ◽  
C McLain ◽  
J Williams ◽  
R Warwick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Sample Return ◽  
Production Strategies ◽  
Sample Return Mission

scholarly journals Mineralogy and crystallography of some Itokawa particles returned by the Hayabusa asteroidal sample return mission

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Mikouchi ◽  
Mutsumi Komatsu ◽  
Kenji Hagiya ◽  
Kazumasa Ohsumi ◽  
Michael E Zolensky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sample Return ◽  
Sample Return Mission

scholarly journals Planetary protection on international waters: An onboard protocol for capsule retrieval and biosafety control in sample return mission

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 1135-1142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshinori Takano ◽  
Hajime Yano ◽  
Yasuhito Sekine ◽  
Ryu Funase ◽  
Ken Takai
Keyword(s):  
Sample Return ◽  
Planetary Protection ◽  
Sample Return Mission

scholarly journals Triple F—a comet nucleus sample return mission

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Küppers ◽  
H. U. Keller ◽  
E. Kührt ◽  
M. F. A’Hearn ◽  
K. Altwegg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comet Nucleus ◽  
Sample Return ◽  
Sample Return Mission

scholarly journals A unique basaltic micrometeorite expands the inventory of solar system planetary crusts

2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (17) ◽  
pp. 6904-6909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthieu Gounelle ◽  
Marc Chaussidon ◽  
Alessandro Morbidelli ◽  
Jean-Alix Barrat ◽  
Cécile Engrand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Mineral Chemistry ◽  
Carbonaceous Chondrites ◽  
Isotopic Data ◽  
Solar System Formation ◽  
Sample Return ◽  
Dust Transport ◽  
Element Abundances ◽  
Transport Dynamics ◽  
Sample Return Mission

Micrometeorites with diameter ≈100–200 μm dominate the flux of extraterrestrial matter on Earth. The vast majority of micrometeorites are chemically, mineralogically, and isotopically related to carbonaceous chondrites, which amount to only 2.5% of meteorite falls. Here, we report the discovery of the first basaltic micrometeorite (MM40). This micrometeorite is unlike any other basalt known in the solar system as revealed by isotopic data, mineral chemistry, and trace element abundances. The discovery of a new basaltic asteroidal surface expands the solar system inventory of planetary crusts and underlines the importance of micrometeorites for sampling the asteroids' surfaces in a way complementary to meteorites, mainly because they do not suffer dynamical biases as meteorites do. The parent asteroid of MM40 has undergone extensive metamorphism, which ended no earlier than 7.9 Myr after solar system formation. Numerical simulations of dust transport dynamics suggest that MM40 might originate from one of the recently discovered basaltic asteroids that are not members of the Vesta family. The ability to retrieve such a wealth of information from this tiny (a few micrograms) sample is auspicious some years before the launch of a Mars sample return mission.

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