P023
Mars Sample Return: Balancing the Benefits of a New Phase of Mars Exploration Against Potential Risks to Earth, While Communicating Both to the Public
Session ID#: 81113
Session Description:
In a mission sequence beginning in 2020, NASA and partners plan to assemble martian samples for possible future return, potentially exposing the Earth to relatively fresh material from Mars. Mars samples will be scientifically selected, and stored there for later pick-up. Sample-return mission partners are studying a joint endeavor that would open Mars as a two-way field site for further study. This session will examine a future MSR campaign, with NASA as systems architect and the lead on an MSR Lander (SRL) mission, and ESA as the lead on an MSR Orbiter mission, providing a Sample Fetch Rover and the Sample Transfer Arm for the SRL. The NASA-provided Sample Capture, Handling, and Containment system and Earth Entry Vehicle would be mounted on the Orbiter, and with a sample receiving facility will be essential to protecting the Earth from sample-exposure risks. Effective public communication will be essential to mission success.
Index Terms:
0406 Astrobiology and extraterrestrial materials [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]
6329 Project evaluation [POLICY SCIENCES]
Primary Convener: John D Rummel, SETI Institute, Friday Harbor, WA, United States
Conveners: Becky McCauley Rench, NASA Headquarters, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, United States and Margaret S Race, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: John D Rummel, SETI Institute, Friday Harbor, WA, United States
Mars 2020 as the First Step in a Potential Mars Sample Return Campaign (503839)
Kenneth A Farley, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kenneth H Williford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kathryn Stack, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mitchell D Schulte, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
HOW CAN I BE A PART OF MARS SAMPLE RETURN?: OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. (547462)
Elliot Sefton-Nash1, Tim Haltigin2, Michael A Meyer3, David W Beaty4, Deborah Bass4, Brandi L Carrier5 and Monica Grady6, (1)European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (2)Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada, (3)NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom
Geologic Mapping in the Midway Mars 2020 Landing Ellipse (565482)
Clarissa Valadez-Luna, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Mackenzie D Day, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
THE SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE OF MARS SAMPLE RETURN (576373)
Monica Grady, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom, Brandi L Carrier, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Harry Y McSween Jr, University of Tennessee, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, Elliot Sefton-Nash, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands, David W Beaty, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and iMOST
Backward planetary protection during a Mars Sample Return campaign: an approach to precautionary biohazard containment and testing (591427)
James Andrew Spry, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, DC, United States, Lisa M Pratt, NASA Headquarters, Planetary Protection Office, Washington, DC, United States and John D. Rummel, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States
The abstract title MUST be entered in initial upper case, for example: Mark the Dates of the Fall Meeting on Your Calendar. 5 characters minimum, 300 maximum including punctuation but not spaces. (601993)
David Beaty, United States, Elliot Sefton-Nash, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands, Michael A Meyer, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States, Bernard Marty, CRPG Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France, Brandi L Carrier, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and MSR Science Planning Group
The ROASTT-2019 training exercise for the Mars 2020 Science Team (603552)
Raymond Francis1, Kathryn Stack2, Kenneth H Williford3, Nicole Spanovich2, Marshall Trautman4, Christy Marie Caudill5, Vivian Zheng Sun6, Sarah Milkovich7, William Abbey2, Michael J Lawson8 and Daniel Cahn Nunes3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Integration of Earth Operations, Sample Preservation, and Containment for Mars Sample Return (613144)
Michael Calaway, Jacobs at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, Andrea Harrington, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States and Francis M McCubbin, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States
