Moon/Mars Science And Exploration In Pressurized Rovers: Early Lessons From Analog Studies At The Haughton-Mars Project Site, Devon Island, High Arctic
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09), March, 2009
Abstract
An important option in Moon/Mars human exploration architectures considered in NASA’s Project Constellaton is the use of pressurized rovers for conducting long-range (tens of km), multiple-day excursions or traverses. Since 1997, practical operational experience with planning and implementing Moon/Mars-relevant science-driven long-range vehicular traverses across unprepared rocky terrain has been accumulated at the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) site on Devon Island, High Arctic, in particular using (since 2003) the HMP’s Mars-1 Humvee Rover, a modified High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) serving as a low-fidelity analog for a small pressurized rover.
BibTeX
@conference{Vasquez-2009-10173,author = {Marcelo Vasquez},
title = {Moon/Mars Science And Exploration In Pressurized Rovers: Early Lessons From Analog Studies At The Haughton-Mars Project Site, Devon Island, High Arctic},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09)},
year = {2009},
month = {March},
keywords = {planetary exploration, robotics},
}
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