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Mars Exploration Ice Mapper

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303:, which are expected to be designed for about 30 days of exploration on the surface. For example, identifying and characterizing accessible water ice could lead to human-tended science, such as ice coring to support the search for life. Mars Ice Mapper also could provide a map of water-ice resources for later human missions with longer surface expeditions, as well as help meet exploration engineering constraints, such as avoidance of rock and terrain hazards. Mapping shallow water ice could also support supplemental high-value science objectives related to 926: 918: 29: 910: 465: 647: 536: 278:
The mission is to search for ice deposits under the surface of Mars, precursor for human missions there. By identifying locations where water ice may exist within 5-10 meters of the surface and thus could be accessed by crewed expeditions. The mission plans to scan specific locations on the Martian
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for fuel. These elements could also provide resources for backup life support, civil engineering, mining, manufacturing, and, eventually, agriculture on Mars. Transporting water from Earth to deep space is extremely costly, so a local resource is essential to sustainable surface exploration.
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Beyond promoting scientific observations while the orbiter completes its reconnaissance work, the agency partners will explore mission-enabling rideshare opportunities as part of their next phase of study. All science data from the mission would be made available to the international science
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and 25° and 40° southern latitude. The upper limit of 40° was chosen to have favorable conditions for solar arrays. The lower bound of 25° is intended to maximize the proximity of locating ground ice (since availability of ground ice generally decreases toward the equator due to increased
270:(LRO) mission. The mission was envisioned to be launched as early as 2026. However, in March 2022, it was revealed in its fiscal year 2023 budget proposal that the US government would terminate NASA financial support for the Mars Ice Mapper, casting the project's future into uncertainty. 384:
The CSA would provide the radar instrument, JAXA the spacecraft bus and ASI the communications subsystem for the spacecraft. NASA would be responsible for overall mission management and for providing the launch of the spacecraft. The mission will cost US$ 185 million.
258:(ASI). As the mission concept evolves, there may be opportunities for other space agency and commercial partners to join the mission. The goal of the orbiter is the quantification of extent and volume of water ice in non-polar regions of 360:
and the layering above it, which can help uncover the history of environmental change on Mars and lead to our ability to answer fundamental questions about whether Mars was ever home to microbial life or still might be today".
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potential, which could be revealed through signs of preserved ancient microbial life or even the possibility of living organisms, if Mars ever harbored life. Ice is also a critical natural resource that could eventually supply
1512: 352:"In addition to supporting plans for future human missions to Mars, learning more about subsurface ice will bring significant opportunities for scientific discovery", said Eric Ianson, NASA 368:. Mars Ice Mapper would complement surface missions on the planet, including the Perseverance rover that landed on February 18, 2021, following a seven-month journey in space. NASA and the 335:
that are led by future human explorers. Such explorers may one day core, sample, and analyze the ice to better understand the record of climatic and geologic change on Mars and its
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community for both planetary science and Mars reconnaissance. This approach is similar to what NASA is doing at the Moon under the
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to develop the spacecraft's communications subsystems, following the Phase A contract previously awarded to the company in 2021.
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Deputy Director and Mars Exploration Program Director. "Mapping near-surface water ice would reveal an as-yet hidden part of the
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Missions are ordered by launch date. Sign indicates failure en route or before intended mission data returned.
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NASA included an illustration of Mars Ice Mapper communicating with three spacecraft in Mars orbit, acting as
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Sounder mode: vertical resolution 1 m, along-track resolution: 30 m, across-track resolution: 1,5 km
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The ice-mapping mission could help the agency identify potential science objectives for initial
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Mars has been a primary target for robotic exploration and the search for ancient life in our
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Access to water ice would also be central to scientific investigations on the
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Polarization: hybrid (circular transmit, dual linear reception)
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S. Bielecki; C. des Arcis; C. Marcanio (8 March 2024).
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SAR mode: map swath width 30 km, penetration depth 6 m
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The radar has the following technical specification:
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communications orbiters
Mars
NASA
JAXA
CSA
ASI
Cape Canaveral
Areocentric
Periareon altitude
Apoareon altitude
Inclination
Period
Mars Exploration Program
Mars 2020
Mars Sample Return
Mars orbiter
NASA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Canadian Space Agency
Italian Space Agency
Mars
In situ resource utilization
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
elevation
entry, descent and landing
latitude
insolation
human missions to Mars
Martian climatology

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