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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780276003321

Titolo

Assessment of Mars science and mission priorities [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration, Space Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2003

ISBN

0-309-16793-0

1-280-17980-5

9786610179800

0-309-50833-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

523.430723

Soggetti

Mars (Planet) Exploration

Mars (Planet) Exploration Government policy United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Interior and Crustal Structure and Activity""; ""3 Geochemistry and Petrology""; ""4 Stratigraphy and Chronology""; ""5 Surface Processes and Geomorphology""; ""6 Ground Ice, Groundwater, and Hydrology""; ""7 Life, Fossils, and Reduced Carbon""; ""8 Lower Atmosphere and Meteorology""; ""9 Climate Change""; ""10 Upper Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and Solar Wind Interaction""; ""11 Rationale for Sample Return""; ""12 Assessment of the Mars Exploration Program""; ""13 Conclusions""; ""Appendixes""

""Appendix A The NASA Mars Exploration Program""""Appendix B Compilation of Recommendations Concerning Mars Exploration Made by COMPLEX and Other Advisory Groups""; ""Appendix C Acronyms""