REFERENCES FOR WORKSHOP ON CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES FOR MARS EXPLORATION
In addition to being responsive to the scientific goals of the Decadal Survey, the reformulation effort will address the primary objectives of the Strategic Knowledge Gaps in the Human Exploration of Mars as well as the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Goals.
Source material of relevance:
1. Scientific goals of the Planetary Science Decadal Survey and National Academy of Science Reports (available at http://www.nap.edu):
- Planetary Science Decadal Survey: The Future of Planetary Science
- Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
- An Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars
- Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars
2. Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Reports
All MEPAG reports can be found here; key reports most relevant to the Decadal Survey priorities are:
- MEPAG Goals Document (latest version is 2010) pdf doc
- Planning for Mars Returned Sample Science: Final report of the MSR End-to-End International Science Analysis Group (E2E-iSAG) pdf docx
- Science Priorities for Mars Sample Return (Report of ND-SAG) html ppt
- Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher (MAX-C): A Potential Rover Mission for 2018 (Report of MRR-SAG) pdf ppt
3. Strategic Knowledge Gaps in the Human Exploration of Mars
- (In preparation): Analysis of the precursor measurements needed to support human exploration in the Martian system (report of the MEPAG Precursor Strategic Analysis Group [P-SAG] study).
- Draft strategic knowledge gaps presented at February 2012 MEPAG meeting
- Humans to the Martian System Preliminary Summary of Strategic Knowledge Gaps P-SAG (jointly sponsored by MEPAG and SBAG) pdf ppt
- MEPAG Goal IV “Preparation for Human Exploration” (2010). The elements of Goal IV were the strategic knowledge gaps addressable using the Mars flight program as of 2010. pdf doc
- Human Exploration of Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 (July 2009)
- DRAFT: Planning for the Scientific Exploration of Mars by Humans (Report of HEM-SAG, 2008)
- An Analysis of the Precursor Measurements of Mars Needed to Reduce the Risk of the First Human Mission to Mars pdf doc
- Report of the MEPAG Mars Human Precursor Science Steering Group Technology Demonstration and Infrastructure Emplacement (TI) Sub-Group pdf ppt
- Safe on Mars: Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Martian Surface
