Mars, the most habitable of our sister planets, holds a special place in our imaginations and in our space exploration program. Fully half of NASA's planetary exploration effort is now devoted to Mars. Key questions include: Has Mars ever harbored life? Is there life on Mars now? Will humans be able to survive on the Martian surface? Answers to these questions lie in determining the present location of water on Mars and its likely inventory in the past, and in determining the present radiation environment of Mars. The 2001 Mars Odyssey Mission contributes greatly these answers by detecting near-surface water through measurements of neutron flux, from the detection of carbonates, and the quantification of its radiation environment. This book captures the objectives, the design of the mission and the details of the instruments carried to Mars. It should be of interest to every scientist interested in participating in the on-going exploration of Mars from graduate students to senior scientists as it provides the background information essential to interpret the many exciting results now appearing from the mission.
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"Mars, the most habitable of our sister planets, holds a special place in our imaginations and in our space exploration program. Fully half of NASA's planetary exploration effort is now devoted to Mars. Key questions include: Has Mars ever harbored life? Is there life on Mars now? Will humans be able to survive the martian surface? Answers to these questions lie in determining the present location of water on Mars and its likely inventory in the past, and in determining the present radiation environment of Mars. This book captures the objectives, the design of the 2001 Mars Odyssey Mission and the details of the instruments carried to Mars".
(LUNAR AND PLANETARY INFORMATION BULLETIN)
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Illustrationen
23 farbige Abbildungen, 44 s/w Abbildungen
VII, 159 p. 67 illus., 23 illus. in color.
Dateigröße
ISBN-13
978-0-306-48600-5 (9780306486005)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-306-48600-5
Schweitzer Klassifikation
2001 Mars Odyssey Mission Summary.- The Mars Odyssey Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Instrument Suite.- The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) for the Mars 2001 Odyssey Mission.- Martian Radiation Environment Experiment (Marie).- Radiation Climate Map for Analyzing Risks to Astronauts on the Mars Surface from Galactic Cosmic Rays.- In Memoriam, Gautam D. Badhwar (1940-2001).
