Mars Sample Return |
Mars Sample Return |
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Next phase reached in definition of Mars Sample Return mission
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMJAGNFGLE_index_0.html |
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A familiar situation with a lot of details but nothing clear.
I've posted these here because Mars Sample Return is the big budget item, but there are many other programs mentioned, including Veritas. https://spacenews.com/final-nasa-2024-spend...on-msr-funding/ https://www.aol.com/news/budget-deal-nasa-o...-214010430.html |
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This is light on details, but provides status updates at a high level suggesting that China's MSR is on-track.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/art...behind-schedule |
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This is light on details... Talk is cheap, and there are essentially zero details here -- nothing on implementation and not even anything about the specific goals of the mission (how many samples, selected how, etc, etc.) It's fairly obvious that a simple grab sample that doesn't require a rover could be done more cheaply, especially with less rigor in meeting PP requirements. Not to mention the structural advantages of not having multiple NASA centers, international cooperation, and all the other things that constrain the NASA effort (tiptoeing around rule 1.2 here.) A little more detail, but not much, as of 2022 in https://spacenews.com/china-aims-to-bring-m...sa-esa-mission/ -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Yeah, I'd say that the newer article basically contains one literal bit of new information, which is that the plans are, in their view, on pace.
n is small, but so far China's track record of accomplishing their stated objectives in space exploration seems solid. From the standpoint of their effort having scientific value, I wonder if they will return any sedimentary rocks and/or if they will complicate their MSR plans by making the effort to do so, or maximize simplicity, at the cost to science, by just grabbing any samples and returning them. So far, every martian meteorite in possession is igneous. China has suggested that Chryse Planitia might be the site where they would attempt to sample, given the abstract of this paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...29/2023JE007937 Mars Pathfinder suggests that a landing site in / near Chryse might be able to access some sedimentary samples. |
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