The Mars 2020 mission seeks to conduct a new scientific exploration on the surface of Mars.
The Perseverance Rover will be sent to the surface of the Jezero Crater region to study its …

Using what has become a celebrated catchphrase, Philip W. Anderson once wrote that
“more is different”(Science, Vol. 177, Issue 4047, pp. 393–396, 1972). First formulated in the …

Particle resuspension is an omnipresent source of aerosols into the environment as the
necessary detachment force to return particles to the atmosphere can arise from a variety of …

During launch operations, mission critical hardware and materials are encapsulated in a
fairing prior to deployment. Depressurization can induce particle removal from fairing walls …

From microplastics resuspending into the atmosphere to earth particles left behind during
extraterrestrial explorations, the resuspension of microparticles by a turbulent gas flow …

The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with a Sample Caching System (SCS)
designed to collect and cache martian core and regolith samples for potential return to Earth …

Median adhesion forces of tritiated tungsten micro-particles deposited on a glass substrate
were successfully determined using an aerodynamic method (AM) which is presented in this …

The Mars 2020 mission aims to answer key questions about the potential for life on Mars, in
part, by searching for signs of past microbial life. Soon after landing, a rover similar to …

Mars spacecraft encounter numerous g-loads that occur along the launch or landing vectors
(called axial vectors) or along lateral off-axes vectors. The goal of this research was to …

What we propose: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in collaboration with the California
Institute of Technology and Clarkson University proposes a systematic 5-year experimental …