Rationale and Proposed Design for a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Science Program
Timothy Haltigin
(1)
,
Ernst Hauber
(2)
,
Gerhard Kminek
(3)
,
Michael Meyer
(4)
,
Carl Agee
(5)
,
Henner Busemann
(6)
,
Brandi Lee Carrier
(7)
,
Daniel Glavin
(8)
,
Lindsay Hays
(4)
,
Bernard Marty
(9)
,
Lisa Pratt
(10)
,
Arya Udry
(11)
,
Maria-Paz Zorzano
(12)
,
David Beaty
(7)
,
Barbara Cavalazzi
(13)
,
Charles Cockell
(14)
,
Vinciane Debaille
(15)
,
Monica Grady
(16)
,
Aurore Hutzler
(3)
,
Francis Mccubbin
(17)
,
Aaron Regberg
(17)
,
Alvin Smith
(7)
,
Caroline Smith
(18)
,
Roger Summons
(19)
,
Timothy Swindle
(20)
,
Kimberly Tait
(21)
,
Nicholas Tosca
(22)
,
Tomohiro Usui
(23)
,
Michael Velbel
(24)
,
Meenakshi Wadhwa
(7)
,
Frances Westall
(25)
1
CSA -
Canadian Space Agency
2 DLR - German Aerospace Center
3 ESA - Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency
4 NASA Headquarters
5 IOM - Institute of Meteoritics [Albuquerque]
6 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
7 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
9 CRPG - Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
10 Indiana University [Bloomington]
11 WGU Nevada - University of Nevada [Las Vegas]
12 CAB - Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid]
13 UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna
14 PSSRI - Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute [Milton Keynes]
15 ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles
16 PSS - Planetary and Space Sciences [Milton Keynes]
17 ARES - Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science
18 DES-NHM - Department of Earth Sciences [NHM London]
19 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson]
21 Royal Ontario Museum
22 Department of Earth Sciences [Cambridge, UK]
23 JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [Tokyo]
24 Michigan State University System
25 CBM - Centre de biophysique moléculaire
2 DLR - German Aerospace Center
3 ESA - Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency
4 NASA Headquarters
5 IOM - Institute of Meteoritics [Albuquerque]
6 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
7 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
9 CRPG - Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
10 Indiana University [Bloomington]
11 WGU Nevada - University of Nevada [Las Vegas]
12 CAB - Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid]
13 UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna
14 PSSRI - Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute [Milton Keynes]
15 ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles
16 PSS - Planetary and Space Sciences [Milton Keynes]
17 ARES - Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science
18 DES-NHM - Department of Earth Sciences [NHM London]
19 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson]
21 Royal Ontario Museum
22 Department of Earth Sciences [Cambridge, UK]
23 JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [Tokyo]
24 Michigan State University System
25 CBM - Centre de biophysique moléculaire
Ernst Hauber
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Barbara Cavalazzi
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Vinciane Debaille
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Frances Westall
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Résumé
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) Campaign represents one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors ever undertaken. Analyses of the martian samples would offer unique science benefits that cannot be attained through orbital or landed missions that rely only on remote sensing and in situ measurements, respectively.
As currently designed, the MSR Campaign comprises a number of scientific, technical, and programmatic bodies and relationships, captured in a series of existing and anticipated documents. Ensuring that all required scientific activities are properly designed, managed, and executed would require significant planning and coordination. Because there are multiple scientific elements that would need to be executed to achieve MSR Campaign success, it is critical to ensure that the appropriate management, oversight, planning, and resources are made available to accomplish them. This could be achieved via a formal MSR Science Management Plan (SMP).
A subset of the MSR Science Planning Group 2 (MSPG2)—termed the SMP Focus Group—was tasked to develop inputs for an MSR Campaign SMP. The scope is intended to cover the interface to the Mars 2020 mission, science elements in the MSR flight program, ground-based science infrastructure, MSR science opportunities, and the MSR sample and science data management.
In this report, a comprehensive MSR Science Program is proposed that comprises specific science bodies and/or activities that could be implemented to address the science functionalities throughout the MSR Campaign. The proposed structure was designed by taking into consideration previous management review processes, a set of guiding principles, and key lessons learned from previous robotic exploration and sample return missions.