session 3B

Title: Mars Exploration – Part 2
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	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Mars Early History, and the Emergence of Life	accepted	15'	confirmed	Prof. Jean-Pierre Bibring		France
2	NASA Mars Exploration Planning: Program Remediation, Planetary Protection Requirements	accepted	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Mars environmental chamber: determining the environmental conditions at which liquid brines form on Mars	accepted	15'	withdrawn	Dr. German Martinez	University of Michigan	United States
4	Mars Sample Return Orbiter: An Assessment Study	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Joel Poncy	Thales Alenia Space France	France
5	Mars Exploration Science Rover Prototype for Science & Sample Return	accepted	15'	confirmed	Ms. Laurie Chappell	MDA	Canada
6	Technological development at CNES towards Mars Sample Return	accepted	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	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Filippo Mailland	OHB Italia SpA	Italy
8	Design, breadbording and testing of a bio-containment system for mars sample return mission	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Samuel Senese	Selex Galileo	Italy
9	Mars Sample Return: Design of the bio-containment system	accepted	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	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Raymond Francis	Western University	Canada
11	Real-Time Wheel Slippage Estimation for an Experimental Mars Rover	accepted	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	accepted	Poster	confirmed	Mr. John Vrublevskis	Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd	United Kingdom

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