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The Phoenix Mars Mission aimed to study the habitability of Mars' arctic plains. Key goals included determining if life ever arose on Mars, characterizing the planet's climate and geology, and preparing for human exploration. Phoenix landed near the Martian north pole in 2008, where it used instruments on a robotic arm to analyze soil and ice samples. The mission successfully confirmed the presence of water ice on Mars and gathered weather data to understand Mars' climate, helping to advance understanding of the planet's potential for life and resources for future human missions.
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Recent and ongoing space explorations include NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft becoming the first to orbit Mercury in 2011 to study its atmosphere and search for water. That same year, NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta to photograph and analyze its surface. In 2012, NASA's Curiosity Rover successfully landed on Mars, the largest rover on the planet to investigate climate, geology, and signs of life. Also in 2012, NASA's Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space beyond the Sun's influence.
M A R S
Mars is an extreme planet that offers little hospitality to visitors due to its arid, rocky, and cold conditions. It has the largest volcano in the solar system and crazy weather patterns, posing challenges even to extreme sports enthusiasts. The Phoenix spacecraft launched in 2007 to study Mars' northern polar regions and search for water ice and organic compounds, landing in 2008. It has an oven and laboratory to analyze soil samples from trenches dug by its robotic arm up to 1.6 feet deep to study seasonal climate changes in the water ice layers. Phoenix also scans the atmosphere and measures temperature and pressure.
Mars
Mars is an extreme planet that offers little hospitality to visitors. It has the largest volcano in the solar system, the deepest canyon, and unpredictable weather and temperatures. The Phoenix spacecraft launched in 2007 to study the northern polar regions of Mars, where water ice is found. It landed successfully in 2008 and spent over 150 Martian days digging trenches and analyzing soil samples to search for organic compounds that could indicate the possibility of past life. Phoenix carried instruments to study the atmosphere and scan as high as 20 km to observe cloud and dust activity.
Curiosity
The document summarizes information about the Mars Curiosity rover mission. It describes Curiosity's goals of investigating Martian climate, geology, and assessing habitability. It details Curiosity's landing site in Gale Crater and comparisons to previous Mars rovers. Curiosity uses a supersonic parachute during its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere to slow its descent, which involves complex fluid structure interaction challenges.
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The document provides an overview of India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM). [1] The primary objectives were to demonstrate India's low-cost capabilities for interplanetary travel and explore the Martian surface and atmosphere. [2] MOM successfully entered Mars' orbit in 2014, making India the first nation to do so on its first attempt. [3] The mission achieved its goals of technological development and scientific exploration of Mars through onboard instruments, with a total cost of only $71 million.
Geology of Mars
A short glimpse of geology of the planet Mars. Good for undergraduate and post-graduate students of geology, geography, earth and planetary sciences, astronomy.
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3) Additional bandwidth from the observatory's communications system not used for science data will be available commercially to support activities like internet services and advertising from the lunar surface.
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- 1. Logan Narcomey Phoenix Mars Mission
- 2. Introduction • Phoenix was part of the Mars Scout Program, which was to send low-cost robotic missions to Mars. • First mission to Mars led by a public university (the University of Arizona) • Used instruments from two previous unsuccessful missions: the Mars Polar Lander and Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander • Launched from Earth on August 4th, 2007 • Landed on Mars on May 25th, 2008
- 3. Goals: Water and Habitability 1. Determine whether life ever arose on Mars 2. Characterize the climate of Mars 3. Characterize the geology of Mars 4. Prepare for human exploration
- 4. Goal 1: Habitability of Mars • Phoenix is to land in an arctic plain, close to the North Pole, an area known from previous observations to be water-rich. • It will use its robotic arm to dig into the soil to look for ice and to chemically analyze a sample of the regolith.
- 6. Goal 2: Climate of Mars • Phoenix is to land near the pole during a period in the Martian year when the polar ice cap is in retreat (the outset of the northern summer), exposing newly thawed soil. • Phoenix will also gather weather data critical to understanding the current and past climate of Mars.
- 7. Goal 3: Geology of Mars • Based on images of the surface and surrounding area and analysis of the soil sample, Phoenix will help determine the geological and mineralogical composition of the Martian arctic. • Minerals and features it finds could help answer questions about the presence and extent of water in Mars’s past.
- 8. Goal 4: Preparing for Humans • What Phoenix discoveries about water, soil chemistry, and perhaps geology will help us understand the resources available for human explorers of Mars in the future.
- 12. • Standard procedure for landers is for the first post-landing image to be of one of the feet, to ensure it has landed upright on stable ground. Footpad image taken 15 minutes after landing
- 13. • Mission designed as a lander (instead of a rover) due to the landing site terrain being homogeneous.
- 14. Instruments • RA (Robotic Arm) • RAC (Robotic Arm Camera) • MECA (Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer) • SSI (Surface Stereo Imager) • TEGA (Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer) • MARDI (Mars Descent Imager) • MET (Meteorological Station)
- 16. Robotic Arm • Four degrees of motion – Up/down – Side/side – Forward/back – Rotate scoop • Central to mission (Phoenix had to collect samples)
- 18. MECA • Wet chemistry lab determines pH, abundance of various mineral cations and anions, and conductivity.
- 19. SSI • Gives stereo images for distances from objects (plus good PR)
- 23. • Built by UA and UT, Dallas • Eight ovens to each be used only ONCE to analyze unique soil samples TEGA (Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer)
- 24. • A scoop of Martian soil revealed a white substance underneath, which had partially disappeared after 4 Martian days. This was interpreted to be ICE!
- 26. Meteorological Station (MET) • Telltale measured wind direction and speed • Uses LIDAR to measure size and density of atmospheric particles
- 27. Weather data
- 29. Taken on January 6th, 2010