Autonomous Technologies and a Mars Exploration Campaign
Abstract
Advances in autonomous technologies in the next 20 years will provide a paradigm shift in our thinking about missions to Mars. As of today, surface missions to Mars have consisted of singular spacecraft to singular locations. Now a sustained, wide-area study is needed to enable astrobiological research concerning potential past, modern, and future (human) life on Mars, to support system-level understanding of Mars processes and conditions on a regional scale, and to support future human exploration. We will describe the details a potential exploration campaign emphasizing the Martian geohydrology for its potential for astrobiology and in situ resource utilization. The campaign includes multiple launches to Mars, several rovers, fixed landers, aerial devices and orbiters that provide a scalable infrastructure to support sustained exploration. We will take particular notice of the autonomous technologies that require development over the next decades in order to achieve the goals of the campaign.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMIN34A..07L
- Keywords:
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- 0394 Instruments and techniques;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation;
- COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS;
- 0555 Neural networks;
- fuzzy logic;
- machine learning;
- COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS;
- 0594 Instruments and techniques;
- COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS