Perseverance rover reveals an ancient delta-lake system and flood deposits at Jezero crater, Mars

N Mangold, S Gupta, O Gasnault, G Dromart… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Observations from orbital spacecraft have shown that Jezero crater on Mars contains a
prominent fan-shaped body of sedimentary rock deposited at its western margin. The …

Temperature-dependent, VIS-NIR reflectance spectroscopy of sodium sulfates

S De Angelis, F Tosi, C Carli, S Potin, P Beck… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrated sodium sulfates have been suggested to be present in variable amounts in Solar
System objects such as Mars and Europa, among the possible others. The presence of …

What could we do with a 20 meter tower on the Lunar South Pole? Applications of the Multifunctional Expandable Lunar Lite & Tall Tower (MELLTT).

RT Johanson, D Jang, E Kononov, M Luu, SJ Morgan… - ASCEND 2020, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Lunar polar regions and permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are a key component of
NASA's exploration objectives for the lunar surface, given their potential for a high …

Martian spectroscopy: laboratory calibration of the Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z and photometric investigation of Mars-analog ferric-coated sand

K Lapo - 2021 - cedar.wwu.edu
Abstract The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance will search for signs of past habitability and
biosignatures after landing in Jezero Crater in February 2021. Spectroscopy is a vital tool for …

Instrumentation for Planetary Exploration

EF Klonicki-Ference, MJ Malaska, MP Panning… - Handbook of Space …, 2023 - Springer
NASA's “big questions” that currently motivate planetary exploration include how the
universe works, how our solar system evolved, what characteristics lead to life, and whether …

Perseverance rover reveals an ancient delta-lake system and flood deposits at Jezero crater, Mars

T Bosak, B Weiss - 2021 - dspace.mit.edu
Perseverance images of a delta on Mars The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater,
Mars, in February 2021. Earlier orbital images showed that the crater contains an ancient …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating Triboelectric Discharge at Gale Crater, Mars

H Kalucha - 2020 - yorkspace.library.yorku.ca
Saltation-induced triboelectric discharge has been theorized to occur on Mars, how-ever, it
has never been observed in-situ. It is hypothesized to play a key role in trace gas variation at …