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The Future of Mars Exploration Dr. Anita Sengupta Research Professor, University of Southern California How do we land on Mars? Why Are We so Interested In Mars? Parameter Mars Earth Distance (AU) 1.4 1 The Terrestrial Planets Look Very

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  • Dr. Anita Sengupta

Research Professor, University of Southern California

The Future of Mars Exploration

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How do we land on Mars?

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Why Are We so Interested In Mars?

The Terrestrial Planets Look Very Different, but what about at the beginning of time?

Parameter Mars Earth Distance (AU) 1.4 1 Mass( Earth) 1/10 1 Radius (km) 1/2 1 Gravity (Earth) 1/3 1 Pressure (Earth) 1/100 1 Atmosphere CO2 N2/O2 Temp (F)

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60 Day (hrs) 24.6 24

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Active Geological History – What Happened?

Olympus Mons Valles Marineres

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Does Mars Have Moons?

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Waters of Mars

  • Large bodies of water once flowed on

the surface

Have We Found Water on Mars?

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Is there Water Flowing on Mars Today?

  • MRO that Mars has wet mud flowing on

the surface

  • Mars is tilted on its axis resulting in

seasonal freezing and thawing

Have We Found Flowing Water on Mars?

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Landing on Mars

  • How many times have we landed on mars?
  • 7 times

– Viking Landers (2) – Pathfinder Sojourner – Spirit and Opportunity (2) – Phoenix Lander – Curiosity: Aug 2012 – Next: Insight and Mars 2020

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Learning from Past and Building the Future Evolution of Technology, Complexity and Size

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Did Mars Once Support Life?

  • Biological Potential
  • Geology and

Geochemistry

  • Role of Water
  • Surface Radiation
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Picking a Landing Site: Gale Crater

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150-km Gale Crater contains a 6-km high mound of stratified rock. Strata in the lower section of the mound vary in mineralogy and texture, suggesting that they may have recorded environmental changes over time. Curiosity will investigate this record for clues about habitability, and the ability of Mars to preserve evidence about habitability or life.

  • Mt. Sharp in the middle of Gale

Crater is as tall base-to-peak as Mt. McKinley in Alaska, which is the tallest mountain in North America

Gale Crater Gale Crater Targets a 20 km Landing Ellipse

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Bulls Eye on Mars

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Bulls Eye on WA

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Faster than a bullet 50 times as fast as an airplane

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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane?

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Do We Use Agile? I Googled Agile -> wait for it

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Bulls Eye on Mas

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Parachute Testing (On Earth) More like Agile

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Team Work and Diversity to Solve Engineering Challenges

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The Future: Advanced Power Systems

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ChemCam

(Chemistry)

Mastcam

(Imaging)

REMS

(Weather)

DAN

(Subsurface Hydrogen)

SAM

(Chemistry and Isotopes)

CheMin

(Mineralogy)

MARDI

(Imaging)

APXS

(Chemistry)

MAHLI

(Imaging)

RAD

(Radiation)

Drill Scoop Brush Sieves

Mars Essentials

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What would be your choice

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Science Instruments?

Photon Torpedos of course

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How long does it take to get to Mars?

7 - 9 months November 2011

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Landing Night

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The Future: Terrain Relative Nav

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Curiosity landed in an ancient lake on Mars

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Simulations versus Reality

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Post Landing Assessment

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Autonomous Systems

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Intelligent Systems

Curiosity took a ‘selfie’ made from 55 images taken with camera on its arm.

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Life on Mars?

Curiosity Killed the …..

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Future Landing Site Assessment

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Understanding the Environment

NASA/JPL- Caltech/SwR I

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Key Observables for Landing Site Selection

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What is the Future?

Getting Larger Payloads to the surface

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What is the Future?

Environmental Control Systems

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What is the Future?

Surface Mobility

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In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Power Radiation Protection Water Methane Extremophiles

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Growing Food

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Would You Want to Live on Mars?

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The Future is Mars

@Doctor_Astro

  • Engineers and scientists make Mars

exploration a reality

  • Space Agencies from around the

world are going to Mars

  • All data are returned to Earth are

publically available minutes after they arrive because this is our future

http://facebook.com/DrAnitaSengupta

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What is Next After Mars?

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What Does an Aerospace Engineer Do?

Europa the Ice Moon

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Titan

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What Does an Aerospace Engineer Do?

Enceladus

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The Future is Mars

@Doctor_Astro

  • Engineers and scientists make Mars

exploration a reality

  • Space Agencies from around the

world are going to Mars

  • All data are returned to Earth are

publically available minutes after they arrive because this is our future

http://facebook.com/DrAnitaSengupta