Evolution of a mars airplane concept for the ares mars scout mission

2nd AIAA "Unmanned Unlimited" Conference and Workshop and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Guynn, Mark D ^a   Croom, Mark A ^a   Smith, Stephen C ^b   Parks, Robert W ^c   Gelhausen, Paul A ^d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Aurora Flight Sciences   (United States)

^d AVID LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; DESIGN; MINERALS; NASA;

ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEYS; HIGH ALTITUDE TESTS; HIGH-LEVEL ANALYSIS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERES; MISSION CONSTRAINTS; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; ROBOTIC EXPLORATIONS; SCIENCE OBJECTIVES;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 55349112466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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