Planetary sample sealing for caching

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Backes, Paul ^a   Onstott, Tullis ^b   Bar Cohen, Yoseph ^a   Badescu, Mircea ^a   Pratt, Lisa ^c   Helmick, Daniel ^a   Sherrit, Stewart ^a   Johnson, Adam ^c   Bao, Xiaoqi ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CACHING SUB-SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MARS SAMPLE RETURN MISSIONS; MARTIAN SURFACE; SAMPLE TUBE; SEALING TECHNIQUE;

HERMETIC SEALS;

MICROORGANISMS;

EID: 70349132084     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2009.4839307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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