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Title: Case for planetary sample return missions. I. Origin of the solar system

Abstract

The scientific aims and proposed scenarios of sample-return missions (SRMs) to Mars, Venus, comets, and asteroids are reviewed. SRMs are currently being evaluated as natural follow-ons to the NASA remote-sensing orbiter missions of the 1990s. The technological advantages of ground laboratory analysis of returned samples are discussed; and it is argued that SRMs to large evolved bodies can provide a record of (1) the composition of the solar system at different heliocentric distances and (2) the nature of the processes that led to the accretion of small objects (preserved as comets and asteroids) into large planetary bodies. Also considered are NASA research and analysis programs needed to support studies of solar-system origin. It is recommended that planning of SRMs be begun immediately, although they may not be feasible before the year 2000. 17 references.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Arizona Univ., Tucson; NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
OSTI Identifier:
5545696
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
EOS, Trans., Am. Geophys. Union; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 68
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTION; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; ASTEROIDS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMOLOGY; EXPLORATION; PLANET-SYSTEM ACCRETION; RARE GASES; SOLAR SYSTEM; ELEMENTS; FLUIDS; GASES; NONMETALS; 640107* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Planetary Phenomena

Citation Formats

Drake, M J, Boynton, W V, and Blanchard, D P. Case for planetary sample return missions. I. Origin of the solar system. United States: N. p., 1987. Web. doi:10.1029/EO068i008p00105-02.
Drake, M J, Boynton, W V, & Blanchard, D P. Case for planetary sample return missions. I. Origin of the solar system. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/EO068i008p00105-02
Drake, M J, Boynton, W V, and Blanchard, D P. 1987. "Case for planetary sample return missions. I. Origin of the solar system". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/EO068i008p00105-02.
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abstractNote = {The scientific aims and proposed scenarios of sample-return missions (SRMs) to Mars, Venus, comets, and asteroids are reviewed. SRMs are currently being evaluated as natural follow-ons to the NASA remote-sensing orbiter missions of the 1990s. The technological advantages of ground laboratory analysis of returned samples are discussed; and it is argued that SRMs to large evolved bodies can provide a record of (1) the composition of the solar system at different heliocentric distances and (2) the nature of the processes that led to the accretion of small objects (preserved as comets and asteroids) into large planetary bodies. Also considered are NASA research and analysis programs needed to support studies of solar-system origin. It is recommended that planning of SRMs be begun immediately, although they may not be feasible before the year 2000. 17 references.},
doi = {10.1029/EO068i008p00105-02},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5545696}, journal = {EOS, Trans., Am. Geophys. Union; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 68,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1987},
month = {Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1987}
}