A study was conducted at the NASA Johnson Space Center to better understand several processes involved with in-situ sample analysis on a mission to Mars. These processes included freezing, heating, crushing, drilling and sample analysis techniques. A series of experiments were designed to recreate these processes on Earth. During these experiments, the main objectives to be studied were contamination of the sample, change of mineralogical composition within the sample, and the torque required to drill into a sample with different amounts of ice.

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Creator

• Sangillo, James F.
• Savain, Alex S.
• Menard, Jamie Peter

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 03A012M

Advisor

• Blandino, John J.

Year

• 2003

Sponsor

• NASA - Johnson Space Flight Center

Date created

• 2003-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright