Design and practices for use of automated drilling and sample handling in MARTE while minimizing terrestrial and cross contamination

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 947-965

  Miller, David P ^a   Bonaccorsi, Rosalba ^b   Davis, Kiel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c HONEYBEE ROBOTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; Engineering constraints; Subsurface biosphere

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; RESEARCH; ROBOTICS; SEDIMENT; SPACE FLIGHT; SPAIN; TECHNOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AUTOMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EXOBIOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MARS; RESEARCH; ROBOTICS; SPACE SIMULATION; SPACECRAFT; SPAIN; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 58049129496     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.0147     Document Type: Article

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