Overview
- Covers all scientific and technological aspects of the ongoing NASA Mars 2020 mission
- Includes discussions by the scientists and engineers involved in the mission planning and operations
- Features dozens of images of the Mars 2020 mission preparation, landing, and exploration
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Space Exploration (SPACEE)
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This is the comprehensive story of NASA’s pioneering Mars 2020 mission, which at this moment continues to break ground on the surface of the Red Planet.
The book takes readers through every stage of the Mars mission, describing its major goals and objectives, the cutting-edge technology and instrumentation onboard the Perseverance rover and other spacecraft components, and the members of the scientific team who steered the mission along the way.
Mars 2020 is the first to actually take samples of the Red Planet and prepare them for subsequent return to Earth. The chapters therefore delve into how and why Jezero Crater was selected as the optimal landing and sample collecting site to meet the mission objectives. Featuring dozens of high-resolution images of the mission, this book gives readers a deeper understanding of the technology underlying Mars 2020 and why its work is so important for planetary science and space exploration.
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Keywords
- Perseverance rover
- Ingenuity helicopter
- Mars 2020 scientific objectives
- Mars 2020 landing site
- Jezero crater exploration
- Mars sample return
- Mars 2020 science results
- Mars 2020 science team
- Mars 2020 engineering
- Perseverance design
- Mars ascent vehicle
- Earth return orbiter
- popular science book
- general interest book
Table of contents (9 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried worked in the spaceflight, aviation and nuclear fields for about 25 years. He was a member of the original NASA Space Task Group for Project Mercury and was a NASA Flight Controller in the Mission Control Center for many Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Missions. He also worked on some of the Apollo Lunar Experiment Packages. He also worked in the NASA Headquarters Space Station Task Force and the Program Office as a contractor for 10 years.
As the sensor operator on the NASA High Altitude Aircraft, he worked with scientists to determine how best to obtain the data they wanted from their instruments and develop a flight plan to achieve their objectives. The sensors included infrared scanners and spectrometers, radiometers, multispectral cameras, large format cameras and other prototype systems. These flights were from 60,000 to 70,000 feet and required the use of full pressure suits. In conjunction with this work, he was an Apollo Pressure Suit test subject which included tests in the Zero G aircraft, centrifuge, and vacuum chamber. As part of this work, he was the NASA MSC Chief of Science Requirements and Operations Branch. He is currently a Board Member of the Manned Spaceflight Operations Association.
As the sensor operator on the NASA High Altitude Aircraft, he worked with scientists to determine how best to obtain the data they wanted from their instruments and develop a flight plan to achieve their objectives. The sensors included infrared scanners and spectrometers, radiometers, multispectral cameras, large format cameras and other prototype systems. These flights were from 60,000 to 70,000 feet and required the use of full pressure suits. In conjunction with this work, he was an Apollo Pressure Suit test subject which included tests in the Zero G aircraft, centrifuge, and vacuum chamber. As part of this work, he was the NASA MSC Chief of Science Requirements and Operations Branch. He is currently a Board Member of the Manned Spaceflight Operations Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perseverance and the Mars 2020 Mission
Book Subtitle: Follow the Science to Jezero Crater
Authors: Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92118-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92117-0Published: 19 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92118-7Published: 18 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 136 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics