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Mercury Lander: Transformative Science from the Surface of the Innermost Planet
| العنوان: | Mercury Lander: Transformative Science from the Surface of the Innermost Planet |
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| المؤلفون: | Carolyn M. Ernst, Sanae Kubota, Nancy L. Chabot, Rachel Klima, Kathleen Vander Kaaden, Stephen Indyk, Patrick Peplowski, Elizabeth Rampe, Steven A. Hauck, II, Sander Goossens, Catherine Johnson, Haje Korth, Ronald J. Vervack, Jr, David Blewett, Jim Raines, Michelle Thompson, Paul Byrne, Brett Denevi, Noam Izenberg, Lauren Jozwiak, Sebastien Besse, Ralph L. McNutt, Jr, Scott Murchie |
| بيانات النشر: | United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance |
| الوصف: | As an end-member of terrestrial planet formation, Mercury holds unique clues about the original distribution of elements in the earliest stages of solar system development and how planets and exoplanets form and evolve in close proximity to their host stars. This Mercury Lander mission concept enables in situ surface measurements that address several fundamental science questions raised by MESSENGER’s pioneering exploration of Mercury. Such measurements are needed to understand Mercury’s unique mineralogy and geochemistry; to characterize the proportionally massive core’s structure; to measure the planet’s active and ancient magnetic fields at the surface; to investigate the processes that alter the surface and produce the exosphere; and to provide ground truth for current and future remote datasets. NASA’s Planetary Mission Concept Studies (PMCS) program awarded this study to a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Carolyn Ernst of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), to evaluate the feasibility of accomplishing transformative science through a New-Frontiers-class, landed mission to Mercury in the next decade. The resulting mission concept achieves one full Mercury year (~88 Earth days) of surface operations with an ambitious, high-heritage, landed science payload, corresponding well with the New Frontiers mission framework. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Report |
| اللغة: | English |
| URL الوصول: | https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20205007709 |
| ملاحظات: | NNJ13HA01C 718798 NNN12AA01C NNX16AN50G NNN15AA05T NNN06AA01C 80GSFC17M0002 1546282 NNJ14ZKA001N NNG07EK00C |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsnas.20205007709 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | NASA Technical Reports |
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