session 3A

Title: Mars Exploration – Part 1
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: 2014-10-01
Time: 09:45
Room: 701A

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Vincenzo Giorgio, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy;
Co-Chair: 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1	09:45	Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity Rover on Mars	20'	withdrawn	Mr. James K. Erickson	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States
2	10:05	exomars 2016 mission – system integration and verification phase	20'	confirmed	Mr. Carlo Cassi	Thales Alenia Space Italia	Italy
3	10:25	An Overview of NASA’s Next mission to Mars: -- The 2016 InSight Mission -- InSight: [Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport]	20'	confirmed	Dr. Ramon P. De Paula	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States
4	10:45	Geology and Astrobiology Field Research in Mars Analogue Extreme Environments (ILEWG EuroMoonMars)	20'	confirmed	Prof. Bernard Foing	European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)	The Netherlands
5	11:05	the exomars 2018 mission	20'	confirmed	Dr. Bruno Musetti	Thales Alenia Space Italia	Italy
6	11:25	MSR IOD Study: an end-to-end in orbit demonstration of key technologies for the MSR mission	20'	confirmed	Mr. Emanuele Monchieri	Airbus Defence & Space	United Kingdom
7	11:45	NASA Mars 2020 Landed Mission Development	20'	withdrawn	Mr. Michael Wilson	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
8	12:05	Overview of REMS first year on Mars	20'	confirmed	Dr. Javier Gomez-Elvira	Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA)	Spain
9	12:25	Fungi in Space: what role can fungi play in terraforming Mars?	20'	withdrawn	Ms. Rose Tasker		Australia
10	12:45	Multi-Objective Mission Design for the Mars System	20'	confirmed	Ms. Xueyao Wang		China

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