Mars Analog Field Testing Reveals Key Operational Strategies for Planetary Exploration Using Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Christopher W. Hamilton1, Brett B Carr1, Matthew Varnam2, Nathan Hadland1, Jahnavi Shah3, Joana Voigt4, Samantha Gwizd5, Kathryn Stack4, Fred J Calef III4, Raymond Francis6, Udit Basu7, Colin Chen8, Baldur Björnsson9, Elisa Dong3, Jeffrey Moersch7, Michael Phillips1, Joshua Springer9 and Catherine Neish10, (1)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, (2)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (3)University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Tennessee, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, United States, (8)Honeybee Robotics Pasadena, Pasadena, United States, (9)Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland, (10)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada