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    Title

    Mars Exploration – Part 2

    type

    oral

    Description

    The planet Mars is being explored now and in the coming years with multiple robotic missions from a variety of nations. This session will cover current results from ongoing Mars missions and the designs for proposed Mars missions including expected experiments. Papers on any aspects of the search for evidence of extant or extinct Martian life, and forward and backward contamination are particularly welcome.

    Date

    2012-10-03

    Time

    15:15

    Room

    TS15 (Sala Ischia, Palacongressi)

    IPC members
    • Chairman: Mr. Vincenzo Giorgio, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy;

    • Chairman: Mr. Pierre W. Bousquet, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France;

    • Rapporteur: Mrs. Amalia Ercoli Finzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;

    • Rapporteur: Ms. Cheryl L.B. Reed, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United States;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    Mars Early History, and the Emergence of Life

    15'

    confirmed

    Prof. Jean-Pierre Bibring

    France

    2

    NASA Mars Exploration Planning: Program Remediation, Planetary Protection Requirements

    15'

    confirmed

    Dr. Catharine Conley

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

    United States

    3

    The Michigan Mars environmental chamber: determining the environmental conditions at which liquid brines form on Mars

    15'

    withdrawn

    Dr. German Martinez

    University of Michigan

    United States

    4

    Mars Sample Return Orbiter: An Assessment Study

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Joel Poncy

    Thales Alenia Space France

    France

    5

    Mars Exploration Science Rover Prototype for Science & Sample Return

    15'

    confirmed

    Ms. Laurie Chappell

    MDA

    Canada

    6

    Technological development at CNES towards Mars Sample Return

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Pierre W. Bousquet

    Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

    France

    7

    Sample Canister Capture Mechanism for Mars Sample Return: Design and Testing of an Elegant Breadboard Model

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Filippo Mailland

    OHB Italia SpA

    Italy

    8

    Design, breadbording and testing of a bio-containment system for mars sample return mission

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Samuel Senese

    Selex Galileo

    Italy

    9

    Mars Sample Return: Design of the bio-containment system

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Dirk Claessens

    QinetiQ Space nv

    Belgium

    10

    Observations of wind direction by automated analysis of images from Mars and the MSL rover

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Raymond Francis

    Western University

    Canada

    11

    Real-Time Wheel Slippage Estimation for an Experimental Mars Rover

    Poster

    withdrawn

    Dr. Ali Haydar Göktoğan

    Australian Center for Field Robotics

    Australia

    12

    Analysis of Sample Bagging over conventional methods to collect and return different types of rock samples on the surface of Mars

    Poster

    confirmed

    Mr. John Vrublevskis

    Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd

    United Kingdom