Dust mitigation for Mars solar arrays

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 812-815

  Landis, Geoffrey A ^a   Jenkins, Phillip P ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; DUST; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTROSTATICS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REMOVAL; SPACE APPLICATIONS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ADHESIVE FORCES; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; DUST PARTICLE SIZES; ELECTROSTATIC DUST REMOVAL; MARS MISSION; MARS SOLAR ARRAYS; REMOVAL METHODS;

SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

EID: 0036948823     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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