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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Mars Science Laboratory"”.
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Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of martian breccia Northwest Africa 7034: comparison with Mars Science Laboratory results
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover is utilizing laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) instrumentation to determine compositions of rocks shot in Gale crater, Mars, from a distance of 1.56-7 meters. At the same time, martian breccia meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 was analyzed with …
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Characterization of clasts in the Glen Torridon region of Gale crater observed by the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover
… in the Glen Torridon region of Gale crater on Mars were studied using data captured by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover between martian days (’sols’) 2302 and 2593. The morphology and composition of clasts has the potential to reveal the nature and extent of erosional processes …
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Cloud Observations from the Mars Science Laboratory Mission: Seasonal Variability, Scattering Phase Function, and Validation of Optical Depths using Lidar Measurements of Terrestrial Cirrus Clouds
… images from the Navigation Cameras onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity, atmospheric movies were created to monitor the cloud activity above its landing site, Gale Crater. Over the course of two Martian years of operations (LS = 160 of MY 31 to LS = 160 of MY 33), over 500 …
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Development of inverse methods for reconstruction of flight environments on ablators
… low density carbon ablators used on the NASA Mars Science Laboratory and Orion capsules. To address uncertainty in surface recession prediction, a method for decoupling the surface recession evaluation from the inverse heat conduction problem is presented to allow more rapid and detailed …
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Modeling Control Signals for Reconstruction-based Time Series Anomaly Detection
… Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite and the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover, which contains heterogeneous sensing data from exploratory missions. The pipeline follows the Sintel machine learning framework and is accessible through the Meissa library, which builds on the capabilities of …
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Post-shock thermochemistry in hypervelocity CO2 and air flow
… dioxide flows in anticipation of the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and future missions to the red planet. The work is motivated by observed anomalies between experimental and numerical studies in hypervelocity impulse facilities for high enthalpy carbon dioxide flows. In this work, …
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Analyzing geological materials under martian conditions using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy : plasma fundamentals, sample classification, and trace element quanitification
… trace elements on unprepared samples either in a laboratory setting or in situ. A significant advancement in LIBS research is the recent deployment of ChemCam to the surface of Mars at Gale crater onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, Curiosity. ChemCam consists of a LIBS instrument and …
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Assessment of moving-mass actuators for hypersonic vehicles with deployable decelerators
… a maximum lift-to-drag ration similar to the Mars Science Laboratory. A range of expected hypersonic flight conditions are analyzed to determine their impact on the achievable lift-to-drag ratio. For a moving-mass actuator mass fraction of 1%, the available lift-to-drag ratio varies between …
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An Approach to Modelling Ice Deposition Across the Solar System
… including those of stratified CO2 icesheets near Mars’ south pole, through high-resolution computer simulations. Modelling ices on other planets (e.g., on Mars) is vastly different from those on Earth; hence the approach will be different for paleo-non-terrestrial glacial modelling. For this, I …
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Annals Of A Former World: The Remnants Of Water At Gusev Crater And Eberswalde Crater, Mars
… distribution, form, and behavior of water on Mars is critical to assessing whether the planet is, or was ever, a habitable world. This thesis examines the evidence for a more water-rich past that is preserved at two key locations on Mars: (1) Gusev crater, the landing site of the Mars …
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Radiative Transfer in the Martian Environment: In-Situ Results from the MSL Curiosity Rover and Laboratory Experimentation on Martian Regolith and Crystalline Rock Analogs
… within Gale Crater prior to the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory. Images from Mars allow the amount of suspended dust near the crater floor to be estimated numerically. The atmosphere within the crater is shown to be relatively dust free compared to the amount of dust inferred in the …
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Studying signatures of water on Mars at two macro and micro scales : orbital analyses of hillslope geomorphology and ChemCam calibration for surficial rock chemistry
… presence, amount, and nature of liquid water on Mars remain major research topics in planetary science because of the implications they have for the geological history and potential habitability of the planet. Here, the signatures of liquid water on Mars are studied at two scales from two …
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Design and Evaluation of a Fiber Optic Probe as a means of Subsurface Planetary Exploration
… orbit around the target body. In the case of Mars, we have had several successful landers and rovers however, with the exception of the Mars Science Laboratory that just drilled its first hole, the complexity of subsurface excavation has limited the extent of subsurface exploration to simple …
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A socio-technical systems analysis of change processes in the design of flagship interplanetary missions
… projects are the planetary rover mission, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), and the Earth-orbiting mission, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP). This analysis has shown that there is some consistency across these projects with regard to which subsystems generate or absorb change. The …