P002
Aerial Exploration of Mars
Aerial Exploration of Mars
Session ID#: 250381
Session Description:
Semi-autonomous rotorcraft have revolutionized terrestrial geological and atmospheric science. Their ability to explore high and low, far and wide allows them to deploy instrumentation and collect remote-sensing data in regions and from perspectives otherwise difficult or impossible to access. The success of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter similarly opens prospects for transforming the study of Mars. Rotorcraft on Mars can facilitate geological and geophysical investigations, enable atmospheric measurements, and assist human exploration. Future missions to Mars could involve these aircraft as complements to ground-bound assets, such as rovers or fixed stations, or as stand-alone vehicles. This session welcomes presentations that consider how small rotorcraft may advance our understanding of Mars, both past and present. Submissions on aircraft-enabled Mars science, missions, and human exploration are all welcome. For details of additional activities, including a social, see http://boi.st/AGU-2025-Mars-UAS or e-mail Brian Jackson at bjackson@boisestate.edu.
Index Terms:
5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5494 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Brian Jackson, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners: Travis Brown, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA, Pasadena, United States, Samantha Gwizd, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and John E Moores, York University, Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Toronto, ON, Canada
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