The selection of the Discovery Program InSight landing site took over four years from initial
identification of possible areas that met engineering constraints, to downselection via …

Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory Mission (MSL), scheduled to land on Mars in the
summer of 2012, consists of a rover and a scientific payload designed to identify and assess …

The composition and physical properties of martian regolith are dramatically better
understood compared to just a decade ago, particularly through the use of X-ray diffraction …

A committee of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) has reviewed and
updated the description of Special Regions on Mars as places where terrestrial organisms …

A primary objective of the Phoenix mission was to examine the characteristics of high
latitude ground ice on Mars. We report observations of ground ice, its depth distribution and …

The thermal and electrical conductivity probe (TECP), a component of the Microscopy,
Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA), was included on the Phoenix Lander …

Chemical analyses of three Martian soil samples were performed using the Wet Chemistry
Laboratories on the 2007 Phoenix Mars Scout Lander. One soil sample was obtained from …

Three-dimensional discrete element method (DEM) simulations were developed for the
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission to investigate:(1) rover wheel interactions with …

The Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity investigated the physical properties of
Martian regolith in 7 wheel trenches and 20 wheel scuffs distributed along traverses at …

NASA's Phoenix mission, which landed on the northern plains of Mars in 2008, returned
evidence of the perchlorate anion distributed evenly throughout the soil column at the …